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123 West 125th Street has a new supermarket. Trader Joe’s opened a store in Harlem on July 25, 2024. It’s their first-ever location in the Upper Manhattan neighborhood in New York City.
“We’re honored and excited to be part of this community,” PIX11 reports a spokesperson said. “We genuinely look forward to providing our customers with the best food and beverage values and a great customer experience.”
The 17-story building where Trader Joe’s is housed will have a lot to offer the community.
The 17,800-square-foot Trade Joe’s store is only a part of a larger project that will be a mixed-use space. Called the Urban League Empowerment Center, the Empire State Development firm has big plans for the 414,000-square-foot building. It will also be the home to New York’s first civil rights museum, the headquarters of the National Urban League, affordable office space, local non-profits, and 170 affordable apartments.
“This project is going to revitalize Harlem. It is smart, it is right, it is mixed use. It brings a museum, it brings affordable housing, it brings retail. It brings commercial space. In and of itself, it is going to revitalize Harlem,” then Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo said on June 17, 2021.
“At Trader Joe’s in Harlem, we see ourselves as your neighborhood grocery store,” the chain states on its website. “We’re happy to be part of your community, and proud to offer you unique products and an exceptional shopping experience, every day.”
Residents and internet citizens had something to say about how the store has been embellished.
When shoppers started flocking to the new store, some took note of the building’s interior and it came under scrutiny online. Decorated in graffiti, some found the art offensive and expressed their opinions.
Others didn’t mind the style. “They hire local artists for each and every store to manage their artwork and store signs. So based on this being in Harlem, I’m not surprised. My Boston one has MBTA trains on the wall,” wrote an X user. “Never been in a Trader Joe’s before?”
“We spent a lot of time in Harlem just touring, looking at pieces at parks and wherever in the neighborhood,” the store manager Tracy-Ann Reeves told Today.com. “The signs and murals in the store are something that we really do pride ourselves on, to make sure that it is connecting with the community.”
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“As Trader Joe’s opens in Harlem the community anticipates and as the development”…
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