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The new Fine Fare Bellport will open in late summer 2026 at a site that was occupied for decades by Cirillo’s Market IGA, which closed in 2023, leaving the village without a grocery store. 
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The former Strike Arcade and Bowling&nbsp;building in New Hyde Park is getting new life after being vacant for 15 years. 
<a href="https://picklenpar.com/">Pickle N Par Club</a>, which will have indoor pickleball courts and golf simulators, is set to open this fall&nbsp;in the former arcade and bowling alley building, said Andrew Ritter, general manager. 
Pickle N Par has two existing Long Island locations — one opened in Melville in 2019 and the other opened in Smithtown in 2023, Ritter&nbsp;said. 
Located at 1330 Union Turnpike, the New Hyde Park venue will be&nbsp;the clubs'&nbsp;flagship location because it will be the biggest and "most premier" facility of the three, he said. 
"We anticipate a high membership volume because of the location, population density and the amount of people playing pickleball in that area," he said. <a class="p-smartembed" data-attr-caption="Pickle N Par, an indoor pickleball and golf club, is scheduled to open its third Long Island location in the fall on the site of the former Strike Arcade and Bowling in New Hyde Park.
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Strike Arcade and Bowling operated from 2002 to&nbsp;2011 in the New Hyde Park building, which is owned by Caroldee Realty in New Hyde Park.&nbsp; 
Except for the entrance, the interior of the 53,150-square-foot building is underground. 
The new Pickle N Par venue, which will offer memberships and non-member entrance, will have 14 indoor courts for pickleball and also host clinics and leagues, Ritter said. 
In addition, the venue will have three golf simulators offering driving ranges, target practice and nine- and 18-hole playing, he said. The venue also will have a high-end coffee bar, he said. 
Pickle N Par is owned by a group of investors, led by Nassau County resident Tony Biancaniello, a commercial real estate broker, Ritter said. 
Building plans for the Pickle N Par project were submitted to the Town of North Hempstead for approval in August 2024, and the town’s board of zoning appeals approved the venue as a permitted use in March 2025, Glenn Norjen, deputy commissioner of the town's building department, said in an email. 
In January, the town issued building permits for interior alterations for the planned venue, he said. 
<a href="https://www.newsday.com/business/pickleball-the-picklr-centereach-ki30pyig">Pickleball is a sport played </a>with a paddle and small plastic ball that has similarities to badminton, tennis and table tennis. 
Nationwide, pickleball was the fastest-growing sport in the United States in 2025 for the fifth consecutive year, according to a report from the Sports &amp; Fitness Industry Association, based in Silver Spring, Maryland. 
Last year, 24.3 million Americans participated in the sport, a 22.8% increase from the year before, the report said.

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The Pathmark name will rise again on Long Island, 11 years after the grocer’s former parent company filed for bankruptcy and all the stores closed. 
A Super Foodtown grocery store in East Meadow, at 625 Merrick Ave., is being converted to the only Pathmark Daily, a small-format grocery store, in the country, with a grand opening set for Friday, according to Allegiance Retail Services LLC, an Iselin,&nbsp;New Jersey-based retail cooperative that provides advertising, technological&nbsp;and other services to independently operated grocery stores. 
The&nbsp;Pathmark Daily concept is a grocery&nbsp;store that is&nbsp;smaller than traditional supermarkets and focuses on value and convenience, according to Allegiance. 
“Pathmark Daily answers the need of consumers who want a fast, hassle-free shopping experience emphasizing strong value and quality,” Joseph Fantozzi, chief operating officer and president of Allegiance Retail Services, said in a statement Monday. 
Allegiance, which bought Pathmark's intellectual property, including the&nbsp;logo, trademarks and&nbsp;brand name, in 2016, also owns the Super Foodtown name&nbsp;and other brands. 
Staten Island resident Mike Said <a href="https://www.newsday.com/business/super-foodtown-new-york-sports-clubs-grocery-store-east-meadow-vcpgttsm">opened Super Foodtown in East Meadow in 2023</a>.&nbsp; 
He is leasing the two-floor, 28,000-square-foot space. The 15,000-square-foot main level is occupied by the store, while the basement is used for storage. 
Pathmark Daily differs from Super Foodtown in that it will offer more sales and lower everyday prices, which means lower margins on groceries,&nbsp;Said&nbsp;told Newsday on Monday. But he expects to increase the volume of groceries he sells, particularly as more shoppers seek deals amid rising food costs. 
"Everybody is watching every dollar. So, I'm sure when they walk away from my store and they see the value and the quality, that word will spread and I will get more volume," he said. 
He declined&nbsp;to say by how much&nbsp;his grocery store's prices will decrease under the Pathmark Daily name, but he said they will be lower than&nbsp;those of major competitors, such as ShopRite and Stop &amp; Shop. 
Other changes&nbsp;made in his&nbsp;store include&nbsp;&nbsp;expanded produce,&nbsp;bakery and health&nbsp;and beauty departments, as well as the addition of "Wall of Values" and "Everyday Low Price" sections that will have&nbsp;featured items that are popular with customers, he said. 
Said also owns a&nbsp;Super Foodtown that opened in Hempstead in 2015 but that store will not be converted to a Pathmark Daily because its size, 10,000 square feet, doesn't meet Allegiance's minimum size requirement of 15,000 square feet, he said.&nbsp; 
Nationwide, the average supermarket&nbsp;in 2024 was 42,453 square feet, according to the latest data from FMI, an Arlington, Virginia-based trade group that represents food retailers and producers. 
Pathmark Daily will respond to today's shoppers "quickly and with&nbsp;ease" for more-immediate needs,&nbsp;said Donna Zambo, chief information and marketing officer for Allegiance. 
"And, so, a smaller-size format that is curated to ...&nbsp;what they need, when they want it for a quick access is really what makes sense," she said, adding that the store also will have an ecommerce component, called Pathmark Daily on the Go, which will deliver groceries to customers. 
She declined to say whether more Pathmark Daily stores are in the works. 
"Future store plans cannot be discussed at this time," she said. 
<h3>A known name</h3> 
The Pathmark name is still well-known on Long Island despite the demise of the grocer more than a decade ago. 
When&nbsp;the Great Atlantic &amp; Pacific Tea Co., or A&amp;P, in Montvale, New Jersey, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July 2015 for the second time in five years, it owned 296 stores under several names, including 51 Long Island stores&nbsp;—&nbsp;19&nbsp;Pathmarks and 32 Waldbaum's supermarkets.&nbsp; 
The 51 Long Island stores&nbsp;were closed by November 2015, but <a href="https://www.newsday.com/business/concern-as-a-third-of-waldbaum-s-pathmarks-are-still-vacant-i82075">some of the spaces were taken over by other supermarkets</a>.&nbsp; 
 A Pathmark store&nbsp;in East Meadow, on Front Street, closed in <a href="https://www.newsday.com/business/east-meadow-pathmark-closing-other-business-briefs-n97637">2013 when its lease expired</a>.&nbsp; 
The only full-size Pathmark in the country is a 49,000-square-foot store, which opened in Brooklyn in 2019. It&nbsp;is operated by Allegiance member&nbsp;PSK Supermarkets.&nbsp; 
Shoppers at the Super Foodtown in East Meadow on Monday welcomed the news of the new store. 
"This [Super Foodtown] store, I found to be very helpful, because I do like special shopping and such here. So, if it stays like this and adds more to it, I think it will be perfect," said East Meadow resident Joyce Scherer, 79. 
Jonathan Kaplan, 40, of North Merrick, said he has&nbsp;noticed changes taking place in the store, including more space to maneuver near the produce,&nbsp;but he didn't know until Monday that the store was becoming a Pathmark Daily. 
"It just seemed a little more, maybe customer friendly, too ... Now it's not as congested, which&nbsp;is nice. But you can't argue with lower prices, right?" he said.

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A drive-thru Dunkin’ without indoor seating has opened in Levittown amid the growing popularity of coffee shops focused on serving motorists. 
The Dunkin', at 420 N. Wantagh Ave., near the border with Bethpage, opened on March 18 and will host a grand opening on Friday, said Diane Morales, one of the franchisee partners along with her brother, Warren DeLuca, her sister, Sue Jantzen, and Joe Matones. 
The store, run by more than a dozen staff members, is the franchisee group’s 26th location on Long Island and its first drive-thru without indoor seating, Matones said. It replaced their nearby sit-down Dunkin’ at 597 Hicksville Rd. in Bethpage, Morales said. 
The franchisee group, which leases the Wantagh Avenue space, said it opened a drive-thru because the 1,100-square-foot store lacked space for seating, though Matones noted that customers also can order from a walk-up window. 
The first 100 customers who are members of Dunkin’s rewards program will receive a free medium refresher for 30 consecutive days at the Wantagh Avenue store, Matones said. Plus, a few customers at the grand opening will win tickets to upcoming Yankees and Ducks games. 
Drive-thru-only Dunkin’ stores are rare on Long Island, Matones said. But if the store performs well, he said, the franchisee group would consider opening more. 
"I think the big advantage to the drive-thru is the convenience, especially if you have weather, rain, snow," Matones said. 
The Levittown store opens as drive-thru coffee shops are growing in popularity amid higher demand from consumers looking for affordable, quick meals, said Robert Byrne, the senior director of consumer research for <a href="https://www.technomic.com/">Technomic</a>, a Chicago-based restaurant industry research firm. 
"Inflation is what it is," Byrne said. "Everything’s expensive. But even though [consumers] may not have enough money ... for dinner on Saturday night, or even two to three lunches a week, they have enough money for a beverage to treat themselves." 
That "little treat culture," coupled with elevated gas prices <a href="https://www.newsday.com/business/inflation-trump-federal-reserve-warsh-d99683">pushing up inflation,</a> make those drive-thrus more attractive to consumers looking for cheap food and drinks, Byrne added. 
<a href="https://www.dunkindonuts.com/en">Dunkin’</a> has more than 200 stores on Long Island, according to the company. It’s expanded nationwide as it competes with coffee giant Starbucks, opening its <a href="https://www.newsday.com/business/starbucks-coffee-menu-open-drivethru-dunkin-x84993">10,000th store</a> last year, The Associated Press reported. 
But outside Long Island, Dunkin’s competition has grown. Drive-thru-focused coffee chain 7 Brew saw 138% growth in systemwide sales in 2025, compared with the year before, while Dutch Bros. Coffee saw 22% sales growth during the same period, Byrne said.

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Dumplings and glam are headed to a New Hyde Park shopping center this year. 
<a href="https://uglydumplingmenu.com/about">Ugly Dumpling</a>, a Chinese soup dumpling eatery, and Phenix Salon Suites, which are private spaces for independent cosmetology and other appearance-based professionals, have signed leases to open locations in the Lake Success Shopping Center, according to representatives for the chains. 
Ugly Dumpling, which has 12 restaurants in New York and five other East Coast states, plans to enter the Long Island market by July with three eateries, including the one planned for New Hyde Park, said Kun Mee Jung, marketing manager for <a href="https://vertexhg.com/">Vertex Hospitality Group</a>, the Flushing, Queens-based company that created the Ugly Dumpling concept. 
The other two Ugly Dumpling eateries slated for Long Island will open in Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove and in Levittown. The Levittown building, at 3535 Hempstead Tpke., was vacated by a TGI Friday’s in October 2024. 
Aside from the three Long Island locations in the works, Ugly Dumpling plans to open 11 other restaurants in New York and New Jersey, as well as Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Texas, according to its website. 
The first Ugly Dumpling opened in Edison, New Jersey, in 2023. All of the chain’s locations are franchises, said Jung, who added that she could not immediately provide the names of the Long Island franchisees. 
Soup dumplings are a traditional Shanghai food that have soup inside the pastry, said Jung, adding that Ugly Dumpling restaurants combine traditional and modern cuisine. 
"And then for us, we tried to kind of make [it] a little bit more refined and creative. ... So we made like a tofu flavor or the spicy pepper, Sichuan pepper flavors in there," she said. 
In addition to soup dumplings, the restaurants also serve dim sum, and wok dishes with chicken, beef and vegetables, Jung said. 
Ugly Dumpling’s New Hyde Park restaurant will be in a 3,200-square-foot space at 1532 Union Tpke., which was vacated by Mikawa, a Japanese restaurant, a few years ago, said Ellen F. Wasserman, accounting manager for the Lake Success Shopping Center. 
Phenix Salon Suites will be taking 14,000 square feet under The Paper Store in the shopping center, in the basement of what used to be a two-level Modell’s Sporting Goods space, Wasserman said. 
Cedarhurst couple Gabriel and Sara Abrams are the franchisees, and they also opened a Phenix Salon Suites location in White Plains in 2023 and one in Manhattan’s Harlem neighborhood in 2025. 
The New Hyde Park location is expected to open in June, Sara Abrams said. 
"It’s a great location, great area, the shopping center is phenomenal," she said. 
The Phenix Salon Suites in New Hyde Park will have 44 suites, about half of which have been rented so far, she said. The occupants will be professionals offering medical spas, tattooing, hairstyling, nail services, etc. 
Headquartered in Las Vegas, Phenix Salon Suites has more than 415 locations, including 13 on Long Island and seven in the United Kingdom. 
The Lake Success Shopping Center’s current tenants include Target, Burlington, Foot Locker, Victoria’s Secret, Sephora, Bath &amp; Body Works, Italian grocery store Iavarone Bros., Bagel Boss and Shake Shack. 
The shopping center’s management declined to disclose the size of the property or its occupancy rate. 
But CoStar Group Inc., an Arlington, Virginia-based real estate information provider, said the shopping center is 628,546 square feet and is 94.3% occupied.

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The new Golden Farms Supermarket in the Village of Hempstead is a family affair, as competition for grocery sales grows fiercer on Long Island. 
Three members of the Diaz family, all Nassau County residents who grew up working in their parents’ bodegas in Queens and Brooklyn, have ventured into&nbsp;retail food sales on their own&nbsp;with Golden Farms in Hempstead Village. 
Opened on March 20 at 210 Henry St., the full-service supermarket, which has&nbsp;deli, meat and seafood departments, sells mainstream American products, as well as those popular with Caribbean, Mexican and Central&nbsp;and South American communities, said JD Azcona Diaz, who manages the store with his cousins — brothers David and Roy Diaz, who are the owner and assistant manager, respectively. 
"You will find all the national brands ... and we incorporate stuff that comes from different countries, different cultures to try to, you know, cater to everybody within the community," Azcona Diaz said. 
<h3>Global flavors</h3> 
Of the village’s estimated 59,569 residents in 2024, 45.3% were Hispanic or Latino, 45% were Black and 38.6% were foreign-born, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. 
Golden Farms has a wide array of food from various countries, including Spanish olive oils; Mexican tamales; plantains, a starchy tropical fruit; yucca, a starchy root vegetable similar to a potato; frozen jocotes, which are Spanish plums; and Central and South American cheeses. 
Among the sirloin steak, pork chops and ground beef on ice are beef oxtails, smoked cow feet, beef tripe, pig feet and pork rib belly. 
Since its opening a month ago, the supermarket has been working to smooth out kinks and make inventory changes ahead of a May 1 grand opening event, Azcona Diaz said. 
The grocer has doubled the number of product types&nbsp;it sells, based on feedback from customers, he said. 
The supermarket’s responsiveness to customers’ preferences is what makes the store different from more-mainstream supermarkets, he said. 
Golden Farms’ produce department is the strongest section in the store, Azcona Diaz said. 
"People nowadays, [are] being a little bit more conscious about what ... they eat and keep themselves healthy. And produce is the No. 1 healthy food. And anything you actually cook or bake, you need produce ingredients," he said. 
Golden Farms is a member of the Key Food Stores Co-Operative Inc., a Matawan, New Jersey-based supplier and retail cooperative whose member stores are independently owned and operated. 
The Hempstead store employs about 25 part- and full-time workers but the Diaz family would like to have&nbsp;70 to 80, Azcona Diaz said 
Finding enough employees has been the most challenging part of the operations so far, he said. 
<h3>Changing tastes</h3> 
The grocery landscape on Long Island has been evolving over the past several years, with more discount and specialty stores opening, while some&nbsp;retailers, particularly traditional supermarkets, shut down, as inflation-weary shoppers seek deals and others desire unique items. 
King Kullen Grocery Co., which has closed eight Long Island grocery stores since 2019, plans to close its Hewlett store May 21, the Hauppauge-based company announced Monday. 
Traditional supermarket chain Stop &amp; Shop closed 32 stores in five states that it said were underperforming, including four stores&nbsp;on Long Island, in 2024. The same year, a Holiday Farms supermarket in Woodbury closed. 
The Fresh Grocer in Oakdale, a traditional, but small-format store, closed this past January. 
Among nontraditional grocers, upscale retailer The Fresh Market closed in Smithtown in 2025 and tech-heavy Amazon Fresh’s remaining 57 U.S. stores, including two on Long Island, closed this year. 
Competition remains a concern for all grocers, Azcona Diaz said. 
"But, again, the reason why these smaller-footprint stores and independent stores do a little better is because now we’re here to cater to the community. ... [With] big-chain stores, the whole country is the same footprint for every store," he said. 
The average supermarket nationwide in 2024 was 42,453 square feet in size, according to the latest data from FMI, an Arlington, Virginia-based trade group that represents food retailers and producers. <a class="p-smartembed" data-attr-caption="Golden Farms Supermarket in Hempstead, a family-run full-service market, opened in March." data-attr-credit="" data-attr-has-caption="true" data-attr-has-credit="true" data-attr-q="0.3" data-attr-w="400" data-onecms-id="contentid/a9c33e41-2844-4b4b-9cbd-b89920e69c13" data-onecms-type="image" href="javascript:window.parent.actionEventData({$contentId:'contentid/a9c33e41-2844-4b4b-9cbd-b89920e69c13', $action:'view', $target:'work'})" polopoly:contentid="contentid/a9c33e41-2844-4b4b-9cbd-b89920e69c13"><img src="/image-service/alias/contentid/a9c33e41-2844-4b4b-9cbd-b89920e69c13/BZGOLDEN2604224.jpg?w=400&amp;q=0.3">Golden Farms Supermarket in Hempstead, a family-run full-service market, opened in March.</a> 
Golden Farms is in a 17,000-square-foot building with a full basement and a 700-square-foot mezzanine, Joseph Simone Jr., superintendent of Hempstead's building department, said in an email Monday. 
The store has been received well by the public and foot traffic is strong, Azcona Diaz said. 
"Right now, it’s word-of-mouth. And, so far, we’re happy," he said. 
Rockville Centre resident Matthew Iorio, 50, stopped by the store for the first time to pick up some V-8 juice Tuesday afternoon. The new store is good for the&nbsp;neighborhood, he said. 
"It shows vibrance in the neighborhood. They refreshed an area that was run down. [It] gives people in the area more choices," Iorio said.

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