A New York City Whole Foods is set to open in the NoMad neighborhood (North of Madison Square Park) June 1. The 54,000-square-foot store will feature over 1,000 local items hand-picked by Christopher Manca, the local forager for Whole Foods’s northeast region.
The store will debut products from local suppliers like Vietnamese coffee from Nguyen Coffee Supply, frozen bagels from Black Seed Bagels, plant-based cheese from Rind, among others. Additionally, on-site dining will be available from several vendors, Café Grumpy will operate a full-service coffee bar, and a restaurant called Nomad 63 will feature a beer-and-wine bar and food.
Whole Foods will donate $9,000 and fresh food to Rethink Food, a nonprofit organization that works to provide for communities facing food insecurity. The supermarket will also sponsor the Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Pollinator Picnic, dedicated to native North American pollinators, and will provide $15,000 in support to the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership Business Improvement District’s public area and fitness programs.
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