in
Paramus, New Jersey, 2009 The original Fairway Market at West 74th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side was originally a produce shop. By 1997, it had expanded with a café that became a steakhouse at night. In 2011, Fairway opened two more locations: one on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan, which opened on July 20, and the other in the
Douglaston neighborhood of
Queens, which opened on November 16. In 2012, Fairway Market opened three more locations: in
Woodland Park, New Jersey, on June 6;
Westbury, New York, on August 22; and
Kips Bay in Manhattan in late December. In 2013, Fairway Market opened a location in
Chelsea, Manhattan, and another at
The Shops at Nanuet shopping mall in
Nanuet, New York. As of 2020, all but five of these Fairway stores have either closed or sold to other retailers, including
Amazon. •
2001: The company opened its first store outside the city in the
Long Island community of
Plainview. •
2006: The company opened its fourth store in Red Hook, Brooklyn. In July 2020 this store was sold to Bogopa Service Corporation to be reopened as a Food Bazaar supermarket. •
2009: On March 25, Fairway's fifth store opened in the
Fashion Center shopping mall in suburban
Paramus, New Jersey, taking up a majority of the mall's former interior space. This was the first Fairway store located west of the Hudson River and the first location ever to open in the entire state of
New Jersey. In March 2020, it was announced that the Paramus location would close. The official closing date for the Paramus location was supposed to be May 15, 2020, but it was delayed to the summer of 2020 due to the effects of the
COVID-19 pandemic. It was then replaced by an
Amazon Fresh store. •
2010: On April 14, Fairway opened a new branch in a former
Kmart in the
Westchester County village of
Pelham Manor, directly across the border with
the Bronx. This became Fairway's third location in the
New York City suburbs and sixth overall. Fairway opened its first Wine and Spirit store adjacent to the market. The second wine and spirit superstore was opened adjacent to the Stamford market. •
2010: In November, Fairway's seventh and largest location to date at over opened in
Stamford, Connecticut. •
2011: Fairway opened a location on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan on 86th Street, between Second and Third Avenues. • Fairway also opened a location in
Douglaston, Queens in 2011. In July 2020 this store was sold to Bogopa Service Corporation to be reopened as a Food Bazaar supermarket. •
2014: Fairway Market opened a store in the DSW Plaza in
Lake Grove, New York, on July 23, 2014. This store was the first Fairway Market location in Suffolk County on Long Island and the 15th food store in the metropolitan area. The company closed the store after only two years. •
2017: In January, Fairway opened a store in a
Georgetown strip mall. In March 2020, the store was sold to
Key Food for $5 million. In 2023, Fairway partnered with
Instacart to launch a delivery service called Fairway Now that services three stores in the Manhattan area. In 2024, Village Supermarkets, which acquired Fairway Market in 2020, opened a new store in Old Bridge, N.J. that features departments borrowed from Fairway Market's banners in New York City. == References ==