The Western New York grocery chain has taken over the old Kmart space in the Wanamaker Building on Astor Place.
Food shopping in Manhattan tends to be finite, more Paris than Paramus, dominated by neighborhood markets. Now Wegmans — the chain based in Rochester, N.Y., with more than 100 East Coast stores, including one in the Brooklyn Navy Yard — is poised to put 87,500 square feet of groceries on the ground floor and lower level of the John Wanamaker building in the East Village. The size of this Wegmans, which opens Oct. 18, surpasses the sprawling Whole Foods markets in Manhattan.
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