The Stoplight

Stop & Shop Opened:  2015 Previous Tenants:  Waldbaum's Location:  999 Montauk Hwy, Shirley, NY Post Author:  Alexweb8 Surely, this was not originally a Stop & Shop. Surely, it's the Shirley store... ...and don't call me Shirley. This Stop & Shop is quite fresh. If your A&P detector is going off, that only means it's working. This is the old Shirley Waldbaum's store. And by "old," we mean 1990. This was not a popular time for A&P to be building stores on Long Island. That said, there were a few, and they are certainly not without their quirks. After acquiring the Waldbaum's chain in 1986, our friends in Montvale decided that the Waldbaum's name resonated well enough with Lawn Guylanders--despite the lack of consensus regarding its pronunciation--that no newly opened stores would carry the A&P name. For better or worse, the integration of Waldbaum's into the Tea Company family was slow-going. At the time ...

Stop & Shop Opened:  2002 Previous Tenants:  none Location:  385 NY-25A, Miller Place, NY Post Author:   A&P Preservation Welcome to Miller Place, a hamlet located on Long Island’s North Shore, in what is often regarded as “Eastern Suffolk County.” (This term is often dismissed by residents, as it is actually the geographic center of the county. Do the North and South Forks even exist? Possibly not, but I digress.) Route 25A, the area’s major thoroughfare, is responsible both for conveying the livestock into and out of No Man’s Land , as well as to Riverhead, where they may choose between outlet shopping, or fulfilling their civic duty at the Suffolk County Courthouse for the 10th Judicial District. Today, 25A serves as an extension of 347 (Nesconset Highway), providing an aggravating, though necessary gateway to the Northern State, or the Long Island Expressway, enabling one to escape the minutiae of listening to a never-ending pizza-debate between B...