63rd Street Super Market

[6302 New Utrecht Avenue, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, c. 1939–1941. From the NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Click for a much, much larger view.]

Just a super-sharp photograph of a corner market — a super market, not a supermarket. I like the barrels, the pushcarts, the handmade signage, and the prices on those signs: 2 for 15¢? Sold. The rear door looks as if it might be the entrance to another business. Maybe an laundry? Boom Town (dir. Jack Conway), once playing, or playing, or to be playing at the Endicott Theatre (7010 13th Avenue), was nationally released on August 30, 1940. You should really click through to see what I’m talking about.

In the 1920s this building housed a real-estate agency. In 1950 the super market was called the Weisberg & Schiffman Self-Service Market. It made the news that year in a robbery. There was a second robbery in 1951, a more unusual one:

[The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 21, 1951.]

Today 6302 houses the D & S Bakery to the front. To the rear, the El Shadai Hispano America grocery store, offering “Grocery Productos Hispanos.”

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[With details drawn from Brooklyn Newsstand and Google Maps.]