History
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.[12]
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.[13] 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.[14]
As of 2020, all but five of these Fairway stores have either closed or sold to other retailers, including Amazon.[8] The sequence of all stores is as follows: In 2023, Fairway partnered with Instacart to launch a delivery service called Fairway Now that services three stores in the Manhattan area.[23]
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.[24]
- 1930s: The flagship store opened on Broadway on the Upper West Side.
- 1995: Fairway's Harlem store opened in a significantly larger space. This store had a 10,000 sqft enclosed space, known as the "Cold Room," which contained the store's meats, seafood, dairy products, and beer. Silver coats were available for customers who wished to keep warm while browsing the freezer. Without a bidder after the company's second bankruptcy, the store closed in July 2020.[15]
- 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.[16]
- 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.[17] 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
