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King Kullen to Close Staten Island Store

King Kullen Grocery Co. said Thursday that it would close its Hylan Boulevard store in Staten Island, N.Y., next month, citing the current economic environment.

BETHPAGE, N.Y. — King Kullen Grocery Co. said Thursday that it would close its Hylan Boulevard store in Staten Island, N.Y., next month, citing the current economic environment.

The store, a former Pathmark, was one of five Staten Island stores acquired from A&P as a result of federally mandated divestitures related to the A&P-Pathmark merger.

United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500, which represents employees at the store, in a press release Thursday urged the company to keep the store open and said it would work to find members work in other union supermarkets.

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