Last week, a manager of D’Agostino told me that they would be closed within 30 days.
By my count, that makes 15 supermarkets that have disappeared since I moved into the Village in 1970. And that is not counting the many convenience stores and small groceries—like Nicola’s on W. 4th Street, right above Perry—that are gone.
Here is my list
—The Co-Op, on 6th Avenue above Bleecker.
—Pioneer, on the corner of Bleecker
& Minetta Street.
—A & P, on Bleecker, where Murray’s
is now.
—A & P, on Christopher, near 7th Avenue, where CVS is now.
—A & P, at Abingdon Square, where Mrs. Green’s is now.
—A & P, 6th Avenue & 12th Street.
—Food Emporium, 6th Avenue & 13th Street.
—Jefferson Market, 6th Avenue between
10th & 11th, west then east side.
—Strawberry Fields, on Bleecker right above 7th Avenue, where the Reiss clothing store is now, I believe replaced another supermarket.
—Western Beef, far west 14th Street.
—There was a supermarket on the north side of 14th Street, west of 6th Avenue.
—Met Foods?
—There was one on the west side of
7th Avenue, right below 14th Street.
—Gristedes? (It was not collecting payment for its stock on the day before a nighttime fire, though I never heard of any charges of arson.)
—Plus the recent closures of the D’Agostino in the Archives Building and the 14th Street Associated.
Like the loss of St.Vincent’s, and the impending loss of Beth Israel, these closures are caused by our society’s putting real estate interests above human interests. How can we gain some control over these forces that make such an enormous difference in our lives?
—Merry Tucker
You can add to your list the independent grocery store that was at the corner of Carmine and Varick Streets (the recently closed Kumon took the space after the grocery store closed). I don’t remember what the name of it was.
Next up on your list of loss to residents in the West Village should be self-service laundromats and theaters (both movie and live performance). Both have vanished.