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Jmart on 18th Avenue at 82nd Street opened this Saturday. People came on foot, by car, by bicycle, and the place was packed, testing parking lot’s capacity and layout (the one entrance and exit onto 18th Ave is going to be problematic, especially for left turns). But on Saturday
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Jmart in BensonhurstThe soft opening of Jmart, the new supermarket [/utrecht-avenue-jmart-opening-soon/]that replaces Waldbaums in Bensonhurst, will be this coming Saturday, June 3, 2017. As of right now the hours are going to be from 7:30am to 9:00pm. Last March Councilman Mark Treyger and Community Board 11 District
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The recently repaved parking lot at Jmart on 18th Avenue and 82nd Street is getting ready for customers. In anticipation, the fees you’ll have to pay for the privilege of shopping there have been posted. If you come by car, the least you’ll pay is $3.00, assuming
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Bensonhurst trash (Photo by Rachel Silberstein/Corner Media)This Sunday, Bensonhurst’s multi-cultural leadership group is planning a spring volunteer event to clean up Bath Avenue. The Bensonhurst Alliance, formed by Community Board 11 Chair Bill Guarinello and District Manager Marnee Elias-Pavia, to promote tolerance among the community’s diverse
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Just over a year ago, we wrote that Jmart’s bid on the old Waldbaums location in Bensonhurst was approved [/its-official-waldbaums-is-now-owned-by-asian-grocer-j-mart-bensonhurst/]. As of this morning, the store looked almost finished, with shelving in place and the parking lot mostly cleared of garbage and ready for repaving. We could not confirm
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Councilman Mark Treyger and CB 11 District Leader Marnee Elias-Pavia and Councilman Peter Koo meet with the owners of Jmart. (Photo courtesy of CM Mark Treyger)In response to the uproar over the sale [/second-asian-market-bids-on-waldbaums-trader-joe-says-no-thanks/] of the New Utrecht Avenue Waldbaums — one of our area’s largest full-service supermarkets — to
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Source: Google MapsAn Israeli supermarket chain has purchased the shuttered Pathmark location in Borough Park, reports Bloomberg Business [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-13/first-israeli-supermarket-chain-said-to-open-branch-abroad] . Jerusalem-based Osher Ad — which is set to open at 1245 61st Street in August — sells strictly Kosher food and is the first Israeli supermarket
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Source: Google MapsAn Israeli supermarket chain has purchased the shuttered Pathmark location in Borough Park, reports Bloomberg Business [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-13/first-israeli-supermarket-chain-said-to-open-branch-abroad] . Jerusalem-based Osher Ad — which is set to open at 1245 61st Street in August — sells strictly Kosher food and is the first Israeli supermarket
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Photo by Ben Cohn/Bensonhurst BeanAs the owners of Jmart quietly closed [/its-official-waldbaums-is-now-owned-by-asian-grocer-j-mart/]on the Waldbaums supermarket site last week, a “no parking” sign has popped up in the store’s parking lot. The 37-year-old New Utrecht Avenue supermarket — which shut down [/farewell-waldbaums-longtime-employees-customers-mourn-supermarkets-demise/#.VkuYI2SrSqQ] as part of A&P’
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Ready or not, the Queens-based gourmet supermarket JMart is coming to New Utrecht Avenue. The grocer’s bid on the shuttered Waldbaums [/second-asian-market-bids-on-waldbaums-trader-joe-says-no-thanks/]location was approved and finalized by a bankruptcy court judge Monday, according to court documents. Dubbed a “cook’s paradise” by Time Out New York [http://www.
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If the owners of Sunset Park’s Fei Long Market [http://www.yelp.com/biz/fei-long-supermarket-brooklynhttp://www.yelp.com/biz/fei-long-supermarket-brooklyn] were trying to keep their bid [/owners-of-sunset-parks-fei-long-market-bids-on-waldbaums/#.VqjXvJMrLe0] on the shuttered Bensonhurst Waldbaums supermarket under wraps, their plan has failed. Another Asian grocer — identified as “JMart Group Inc.” — has