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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2021 17:16:58 GMT -5
Kossuth Fish Market is closing. The owner and family had enough and will sell everything. He will close as soon as someone buys the business.
He has been around forever and like he said always very very busy.
Post a link as soon as it is available on WKTV. Was just on News at 5PM
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Post by Clipper on Jan 22, 2021 17:28:33 GMT -5
I used to buy fish, shrimp and bags of clams there when I lived on Leeds St. Nice folks. Always had bags of clams for less than West End Seafood or Chanatry's. Then I met the Scialdo's from West End on a bus trip that I drove to NY City. Couldn't beat shopping with them after that because they always gave me a discount. Shirley was a sweetheart.
Kossuth Fish Market has been around for many many years. Just one more iconic Utica business soon to be history unless someone buys it and keeps the name. Best wishes for the owners to have a happy retirement.
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Post by artsyone on Jan 22, 2021 18:24:17 GMT -5
How sad. But they have been around for many years, not as long as Pelleteri Joes, but a long time. The owner deserves to retire. That entire neighborhood has changed and continues to change. Like the Italians, the Poles, the Irish who settled the East End, we have new arrivals to add to the vibrancy of the neighborhood: Spanish, Laotion, Vietnamese., African and Bosnian, to name a few. All of these folks have their own preferred cultural foods and the stores reflect that. You can get any type of food you want in the East End, and there are still Italian grocers, but they are being crowded out. Even Garro's Drugs, a Bleecker Street staple on the South East corner of Bleecker and Mohawk has moved, it is farther down the block to the West and owned by folks from India. Holdouts down there are still Pelleteri Joes, Ventura's and the two Italian Bakeries Florentine, plus Gueseppi's on Mohawk St, has been there many years and bakes the best bread. I never shopped at Kossuth Fish Market, but I am still sad to see them go. Their fish is a Christmas Eve staple for all the Italian families. Chanatry's will step in to take up the slack, this I know and possibly Price Chopper. Other than that I don't think there is another fresh fish market here.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2021 19:58:23 GMT -5
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Post by Clipper on Jan 22, 2021 22:10:11 GMT -5
When I drove charter buses years ago we used to have shopper buses that went to Price Chopper in N. Utica, Commercial Drive, and Rome from all the local senior citizen housing sites. I used to pick up at back parking lot at your building PB and take folks to N. Utica. It was a pain in the ass for the driver because he would have to load a hundred or more bags of groceries under the bus at the store and unload them all at the apartment complex, but I felt sorry for many of the old ladies and would take their bags to their door after they had all been carried into the lobby. First drove those trips for Central Coach and later for Birnie Bus.
Who did the bus trips to Chanatry's? Utica Transit or a charter company?
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Post by BHU on Jan 23, 2021 8:45:50 GMT -5
It's a shame they're closing. They had the best shrimp in the city. Gulf shrimp shipped here, none of that crap raised in fish farms in Southeast Asia & fed God only knows what. Most of the shrimp sold in big box stores comes from Thailand.
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Post by artsyone on Jan 23, 2021 9:39:23 GMT -5
Clipper: I think it was a city bus and it is my belief that they stopped because ridership declined.
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Post by Clipper on Jan 23, 2021 10:43:50 GMT -5
Clipper: I think it was a city bus and it is my belief that they stopped because ridership declined. Not surprised. The buses that Price Chopper paid for were seldom heavily occupied other than the first week of the month when people got their checks. I don't know how much the bus company was paid, but they tied up a motor coach for about 3 hours or more and paid the driver for that time, and the occupancy ranged from almost a full bus to only 8 or 10 shoppers or less. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2021 12:13:48 GMT -5
City Bus and it ran each Tuesday of the month. Yup ridership was only about 15 people more at beginning of month. One Tuesday I was the only one.
Now we have the City Bus picking up residents at several places to go to Walmart. I think it is once a month
I used to enjoy shopping at Chanatry's so now I never go there anymore.
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Post by BHU on Jan 23, 2021 14:02:50 GMT -5
City Bus and it ran each Tuesday of the month. Yup ridership was only about 15 people more at beginning of month. One Tuesday I was the only one. Now we have the City Bus picking up residents at several places to go to Walmart. I think it is once a month I used to enjoy shopping at Chanatry's so now I never go there anymore. I enjoy Chanatry's. Their produce is top notch & they don't have self service registers. I shop there at least once a week & we buy most of our produce from them. |
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Post by Clipper on Jan 24, 2021 0:09:09 GMT -5
Chanatry's and Pulaski meat market were always our favorite for meats. Was never a big fan of Hap's. Chanatry's store made Italian sausage is awesome. When we come up on vacation I always buy 10 or 15 pounds either there or Meelan's in Clarks Mills. I shopped with the Chanatry's for many years when they were on Albany and Culver Ave. Had the family on Florida bus tours a couple of times. They were nice folks. When I was at the OD they used to take a full page ad every week in the Sunday paper. The OD used to get the inserts for Price Chopper, Topps, and Hannaford by Thursday. We always were ordered from upstairs to deliver inserts to Chanatry's on Thursday nights so they could see what was on sale at other stores and undercut them in their Sunday ad. For the money they paid for a full page, year upon year, they earned the special treatment I guess.
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