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New Upper East Side Fairway Opens July 20; Boasts Speedy Elevators, Wider Aisles

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Upper West Side: Trader Joe’s Opening, Week 3

I looked around the shiny new Trader Joe’s on 72nd and Broadway. It’s the usual Trader Joe’s stuff, but wonder of wonders, it wasn’t jam packed. Nice wide aisles too.
On the grocery-store-obsessed Upper West Side, as we all know, the opening of the new Trader Joe’s appears to rank above the launch of a new [...]

Trader Joe’s Upper West Side Taking Job Applications

Here’s a photo that offers living proof that Trader Joe’s will almost certainly be opening soon. Want a job? They’re taking employment applications in a loading area on 72nd Street, or at least they were a couple of days ago.
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Upper West Side: Renovation of Trader Joe’s to be Completed by August

The Westside Independent reports on the latest Upper West Side Trader Joe‘s machinations:

Construction at the new building on the corner of 72nd Street and Broadway is ongoing, and there are still no signs of Trader Joe’s imminent arrival on the ground floor, but that should change in a few months.
Trader Joe’s will take over [...]

Upper West Side: Fairway’s Steve Jenkins Takes on Trader Joe’s Threat

The Upper West Side’s supermarket wars are heating up. With Trader Joe’s scheduled  to move next year into a location at Broadway and 72nd Street, you would expect Fairway, the neighborhood’s iconic specialty grocer perched two blocks north at 74th Street, to be feeling the heat.
But Fairway’s longtime cheesemonger, Steve Jenkins, says he isn’t losing [...]