Pathmark on Cherry Street Closing at End of December

Posted on: October 1st, 2012 by and

For nearly thirty years, Pathmark has served the Lower East Side community, from the Manhattan Bridge and Rutgers Houses to all parts north. The budget supermarket is a lifeblood, despite the terrible experience awaiting customers behind those automatic doors. Anyway, those days are finished – the Pathmark at 227 Cherry Street will close at the end of the year.

Rumors of its demise had been swirling for weeks, but the word was officially confirmed on Friday afternoon. The Two Bridges Neighborhood Council issued a statement regarding the imminent closure, an excerpt of which is published here:

The Pathmark supermarket located at 227 Cherry Street currently serves the essential needs of every strata of our diverse Lower East Side community, especially seniors and low income families. Furthermore, the possible loss of the Pathmark pharmacy is particularly disconcerting, considering it serves hundreds of families in this area.  In essence, the loss of both the Pathmark supermarket and pharmacy is the loss of a very essential social service.

In upcoming weeks, Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, Inc. intends to solicit the assistance of our local elected officials, community leaders, and residents to work towards extending the Pathmark’s services for as long as possible, until continuity of services can be guaranteed by a future on-site full service supermarket that aims to serve the diverse communities and needs of this area.

A supermarket in our community is essential to thousands of residents who have very few other options for fresh food and other essentials.

Speaker Sheldon Silver also jumped in the ring with comments of his own:

I am deeply concerned by the announcement Pathmark plans to close its store on Cherry Street.  A full service supermarket at this location is of vital importance to thousands of residents in the community who have few other options for fresh food and other essentials.

Five years ago, I led an effort to keep this store open and I will once again work hard to ensure that we retain a full service supermarket at this location.

While there has been speculation for several years that Pathmark would shut its doors as developers sought to build a high-rise project on site, Assemblyman Silver helped lead the fight to keep it open. A&P, which owns Pathmark and holds the lease for another three decades, stated that it might reopen a store on the current site after the future residential project is complete. This brochure became part of the rumor-mongering five years ago…

Source: Curbed

  • NYC Chinatown

    This leaves a real void in the surrounding community. Where will people go?

  • Pathmark out-of-work associate

    Ron Burkle, worth 30 Billion, and owner of A&P Pathmark, hates poor people, even though he gives millions every year to reelect democrats like the liar Obama, whose slogan should be “Anything Goes”. At least they could find a replacement building for Pathmark, those gonifs!! DONOT trust politicians, that’s why we are poor, fools!!!

    • StedyRuckus

      I mean this does suck that it is closing – as we see happen to so many other grocery stores across the city – but let’s keep things in perspective here – this is a for-profit enterprise – not a soup kitchen – they do not have a social obligation to stay open to serve the community – they have a financial obligation to their shareholders and the truth of the matter is this land is sorely underdeveloped to be in lower Manhattan. Why wouldn’t they want to build up – and then re-open a supermarket upon completion. And oh yeah – way to blame Obama for this too.

  • Pathmark captive

    Pathmark should bus us to Brooklyn Pathmark for free everyday. They give double coupon everywhere except NYC. I do not like A&P attitude. They are very rude!!!!!

  • low budget

    Where do obama shop?? he sends his servants to food emporiumk

  • Edward

    aww hell, now i have to go to new york mart under the manhattan bridge. Pathmark wasnt the best, but it sure beats most of the competition in chinatown

  • Joe Biden

    If Obama can save this store, we will kiss his asshole.

    • A Poorass Manhattanite

      LOL @ comment and username

  • Vote Republican

    Ron Burkle who gives millions to reelect riffraff garbage democrats like obama controls A&P Pathmark. To hell with them

  • Sick of rich people

    This is disgusting. Not only will people not have a place nearby to shop but they are going to block the view for many residents. Why can’t they move and let another supermarket come in?

  • joe

    Wait until the hi rises are completed and then what, open a super expensive Whole Foods?

  • hmm

    nyc needs a walmart

  • need vs greed

    This is real sad this is need vs greed here. our view will be blocked. but also pathmark was needed here for all the people. how can this company come here and take over our comunity like this. I hope some how some way a plan can be worked out and put a new super market here at cherry street. something got to be worked out here. profit enterprise sure not caring for the needs of the people that are living here for many years. its all about making money while these people don;t even live in the neighborhood. like I said its need vs greed here. and I hope that a new supermarket is build here even if the buildings go up. we need a solution here and hope they have a heart and listen to the crys of all our people. in the mean time we will wait and see what happens. Victor papa president hopefully will have good news for us as he continues to fight for our needs.

  • People suck

    Why is it that everyone is always bitching? If you hate the rude service at Pathmark, it is your right to shop elsewhere! It’s like hating the food at a certain restaurant but yet there you are on a regular, gobbling it down like a pig at a trough and paying for it on top of that. Why should everything have to be to your convenience? Life is not supposed to be convenient, the problem is that people are too eager to complain yet loath to lift a finger to improve upon their own situation. I bust my hump from 5am – 8pm six days a week just to squeak out a living, because that is the amount of work that is needed just to pay my bills. If I want something from Pathmark, I go in and buy it, and who the hell cares if the staff is nice, rude, or apathetic, I don’t sleep with them and I’m not there to have my ass kissed or to become best buddies with anyone, I’m there to buy what we want and go on with my merry life. There are also tons of other stores in this great city that we can buy things from, yet people make it seem like this is the only store in the world. So unless you are working more than my 75 hours per week, maybe you’re not trying hard enough and wasting all your time bitching. Bitching solves nothing, action does. Want more money? Work more, work harder. Sick of being a fat and tired lazy ass? Stop eating all the crap that Americans eat, get in shape and trust me, you’ll feel amazing no matter what’s going on in your life. Actually walking to a more distant store is the best thing you can do for yourself and your life. No one likes whiners and complainers, be grateful for what you have and stop hating on people who happen to have more than you do, it’s beyond stupid and pathetic, someone always will have more than you do! This is the first and last time I will ever read comments on any site, it’s disgusting and makes me lose all faith in humanity. All I wanted to do is find out when the stupid store was closing. People suck.

  • ex-Cherry Street Resident

    Maybe they will leave well enough alone. Build 2 hi-risers on a site that only 2 wks. was flooded by Hurricane Sandy? Seems like not such a good idea now. Besides where will be people in the are shop? There is no other full-scale super market in the area.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Claudine-Collazo-Chapman/1491815276 Claudine Collazo Chapman

    they will open a store maybe a Shop-Rite twice the size on the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area site.
    Just relax and stop BITCHING??????

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