Yeah, there's really no room in Downtown Brooklyn for the sort of supermarket-genre grocery stores that I remember from (central & southern) Brooklyn (Kings County) and Queens.
I said in my earlier comment that I wasn't sure if there were such grocery stores in Manhattan at all before the 1990s, but I'm pretty sure at least D'agostino's was well-established by the 1980s if not earlier.
Some ancient supermarket chains I remember from my childhood in Brooklyn were Met Food (IIRC), A&P, Key Food, and Bohack's, in addition to the more successful Waldbaum's. In Queens I remember Grand Union (now dead) as well as Waldbaum's.
I said in my earlier comment that I wasn't sure if there were such grocery stores in Manhattan at all before the 1990s, but I'm pretty sure at least D'agostino's was well-established by the 1980s if not earlier.
Some ancient supermarket chains I remember from my childhood in Brooklyn were Met Food (IIRC), A&P, Key Food, and Bohack's, in addition to the more successful Waldbaum's. In Queens I remember Grand Union (now dead) as well as Waldbaum's.