Trader Joe’s new Harlem location will open this week
Photo courtesy of Trader Joe’s
Harlem’s first-ever Trader Joe’s opened on Thursday, July 25, the grocery store announced. The 17,800-square-foot location can be found at 123 West 125th Street, part of a mixed-use development with office space, retail, affordable housing, the headquarters of the National Urban League, and a new museum dedicated to the civil rights movement.
The new store features artwork of local landmarks, including the Apollo Theater, Adam Clayton State Park, and iconic locations along one of the most historic and culturally important retail corridors in the country, 125th Street.
The Harlem location marks Trader Joe’s 10th location in Manhattan, and 17th in New York City. Hiring efforts are underway at the new store, which plans to hire 100 new crew members from the surrounding area.
The mixed-use development, dubbed the Urban Empowerment Center, is being developed by Taconic Partners, the Prusik Group, L+M Development Partners, and BRP Companies, in collaboration with the Empire State Development. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle, the 17-story building is comprised of a six-story retail and office podium with 171 units of affordable housing, including 51 supportive housing units for young individuals aging out of foster care, above.
In addition to Trader Joe’s, the building will be home to Target, Sephora, and Pandora.
Anchoring the development is the new headquarters for the nonprofit the National Urban League, which was founded in Harlem in 1910 and later relocated to Lower Manhattan.
The organization will occupy the third and fourth floors, which will also be home to the Urban Civil Rights Museum. As the city’s first museum dedicated to the civil rights movement, the institution will feature exhibits exploring the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, and the Black Lives Matter movement. The museum will feature a cafe, a 300-seat auditorium, and 12,000 square feet of exhibition space.
The development will be home to office space for the Studio Museum, which is currently getting a new building across the street, the United Negro College Fund, the Virginia Union University, and One Hundred Black Men of New York.
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As A Harlem Resident applied in person twice for a paper application was told they ran out left tele # 646.418.9614 hasn’t heard from a team member as of yet why because NOT in the tech world?? # baby~boomer so disappointed & disheartening with with past experience (Daitch Shopwell/Food E)mporium
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Thank you for coming to Halem. I will Still have to travel to 72nd street. Because my bank is there, but I only go to the bank maybe once a month so all my flowers and everything will be bought there in trader. Joe’s once again, thank you.