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# Gala Fresh Farms Will Likely Become NetCost Market, Property Records Show
- URL: https://bklyner.com/gala-fresh-farms-will-likely-become-netcost-market-property-records-show/
- Published: 2017-06-09T13:29:02.000Z
- Updated: 2017-06-09T13:42:27.000Z
- Author: Liena Zagare
- Tags: Bensonhurst, Business, Food & Drink, News, Nonsponsored, Sheepshead Bay, Southern Brooklyn, Western Brooklyn, eastern european food, Eastern-European market, Gala Fresh, gourmanoff, grocery store, netcost market, supermarket, thebitebk, waldbaums, #wp

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Gala Fresh Farms will now be replaced by NetCost. (Photo by Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)

Looks like [NetCost Market](http://www.netcostmarket.com/?ref=bklyner.com) has taken over the space vacated by Gala Fresh Farms at 3100 Ocean Avenue, which closed after just a year in business, having taken the space over from the former Waldbaums.

Property records list NetCost Market as the lessee since May 30, at the address that has been a rotating door of grocery stores in Sheepshead Bay.

Waldbaum’s, the longtime neighborhood grocer at 3100 Ocean Avenue, closed its doors in November 2015 during the [bankruptcy saga](/three-quarters-of-ocean-avenue-waldbaums-workers-could-lose-jobs-due-to-ap-bankruptcy-sheepshead-bay/) of its parent company, A&P. The location was auctioned off to Compare Foods, which replaced Waldbaum’s with a new ‘upscale’ grocery chain called Gala Fresh Farms.

After much anticipation, Gala Fresh Farms, the ‘upscale’ grocery, opened last March, [we reported](/gala-fresh-farms-open-ocean-avenue-week-sheepshead-bay/), only to close barely a year later.

NetCost Market is an Eastern-European specialty supermarket. [Epicurious](http://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/netcost-best-grocery-store-in-america-article?mbid=Social%5FFacebook%5FVideo%5FCTA&ref=bklyner.com) thinks that its Bensonhurst location is the [“best supermarket in the world”](/netcost-best-russian-market-world-bensonhurst/), what with quail eggs, whole pigs, gefilte fish, buckets of caviar, and miles of sausages at the 18th Avenue superstore (between 86th Street and Benson Avenue).

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/NET06-047.jpg)

Honey at NetCost Market

It caters to the European immigrants and has an excellent selection of imported and ethnic products, whether you’re after cold smoked chicken or fish:

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/NETCOSTsi-087.jpg)

Herring display at NetCost market

Or lots of different kinds of dairy products, and beer (they have a number of Aldaris brews, for any Latvians out there planning midsummer celebrations):

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/NET06-088.jpg)

This would be the 5th NetCost Market in Brooklyn. [They also have](http://www.netcostmarket.com/netcost-market-locations/?ref=bklyner.com) a store in Queens, another in Staten Island, two in Philadelphia, and one in New Jersey. And they also own [Gourmanoff](/gourmanoff-brighton-beachs-opulent-new-gourmet-market-now-open-photos-sheepshead-bay/) in Brighton Beach, and the recently opened [Gourmanoff Cafe & Bakery](/lunch-dessert-dessert-sheepsheads-gourmanoff-bakery/) in Sheepshead.

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-07-at-2.15.32-PM-2000x1572.png)

Let’s hope this one lasts! We will update when we hear back from the NetCost representatives on opening dates.