Maspeth supermarket open 24 hours, big parking lot, home delivery

Call us what you will, we love a good supermarket. In New York City, it’s rare to find a suburban-style supermarket, and sometimes the heart wants what it wants. Fairway in Brooklyn is great, (we haven’t tried the one in Queens yet) Trader Joe’s has great products, but let’s be honest, it doesn’t sell real produce.

This Stop and Shop in Maspeth at 7417 Grand Avenue (GMAP) is enormous. It has parking, and you can buy literally everything. It doesn’t have that Costco/Ikea warehouse feeling and it even has a florist and birthday balloons for last minute special occasions – Valentine’s Day was interesting here.

The store offers self-checkout which, (for those of you too New York to even know what that is) is where they actually trust you to bag and scan your own items. This can be nice if you only are getting a few things and don’t want to wait for cashiers, but you may also feel like a part time employee. Your kids will probably love it though. The store has a natural food section for all you hippies, an international section for the rest of you and a full pharmacy for grannies and the allergic. It has a seafood section, a pet section, a baby section and a CoinStar machine (that thing that gives you dollars for coins- again if you are super urban, you might not know about these). There is apparently a Western Union in the store somewhere and, if you want to forgo this amazing luxurious supermarket, you can shop online and have it delivered to your home. But, the absolute best thing about this supermarket is that it is open 24 hours per day. If you want to buy shampoo or steak or frozen food you can do it at any time, day or night. You could go right now.

Love the outdoor garden section.

Observe the vast amount of open space that lies before us (and the lady in the giant poncho).

When the supermarket aisle is as long as a football field, yet you do not feel trapped and crammed in, you have truly found your place in the world.

Space to dream of food.

And, of course, we have to mention that there is still a magazine section with real honest to goodness printed magazines in it.