Jubilee Marketplace, located just far enough down West Street in Greenpoint to feel like an oasis amid all those almost-empty residential towers, is, at its core, just a grocery store. There's produce, cleaning products, condiments, dairy and deli products, a cereal aisle, a butcher counter, a fish counter, cans of stuff...you know how these places work.
But let's go back in time for a second, to 2009, when a kid from Jersey named Young Kim got hired as a stock person at the original Jubilee, in Manhattan's Financial District. Kim proved to be something of a grocery genius, and by the time Jubilee opened its Greenpoint outpost in 2023, he was a co-owner and CEO of the joint.
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