Manhattan’s newest Whole Foods opened its doors Wednesday as Lower Manhattan’s newest and largest grocery store. The two-story supermarket sprawls over an entire city block, occupying 68,000 square feet at Warren and Greenwich Sts., and is the second largest of the five Whole Foods in Manhattan. “I worked the openings at Chelsea and Bowery Whole Foods and I have never seen so many people waiting outside the doors as there were this morning,” said Ashleigh Boynton, the “store team manager” for the new Whole Foods. “It’s fantastic. We’ve been waiting for this for a long time,” said Lydia Donna, who has lived in Tribeca since 1982. “We are a little afraid that this will put small merchants out of business. It’s a neighborhood worry.”
Around lunchtime, Rob Schroeder, who works in the neighborhood, was checking out the new store’s expansive sushi bar. “I was already in here for breakfast and now I’m back. This place is unbelievable; it has everything; it’s the greatest!”
— James S. Woodman
The new Whole Foods opened on Wednesday with lines out the door.
