By Gus Saltonstall
An Upper West Side Trader Joe’s is temporarily closed on Monday, according to the store’s website.
The grocery store’s outpost at 670 Columbus Avenue, between West 92nd and 93rd streets, shuttered Monday morning “due to flooding,” Trader Joe’s website reads.
It is unclear when the business will reopen, and the store did not respond to a pair of phone calls from West Side Rag. Trader Joe’s website for the location currently has the business as closed for the duration of Monday.
While it is unconfirmed, multiple people on the Upper West Side Reddit page said the flooding was caused by a burst pipe in the store.
There are three small signs on the Trader Joe’s entrance doors as of 4 p.m. on Monday that read, “We Are Closed. Sorry for the inconvenience.”
Coincidentally, the Whole Foods at 808 Columbus Avenue, near the corner of West 97th Street, was also temporarily closed Monday morning due to flooding, but has since reopened, as confirmed by a customer service representative from the store.
WSR will update this story when we learn more about when the West 93rd Street Trader Joe’s might reopen.
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Frozen Pipes?
Funny, Whole Foods at Columbus Square was closed because of the same reason this morning. They reopened and Trader Joe’s closed because of flooding. Sounds like The State Health Inspector was in the area.
Strangely the corner market on 93rd and broadway was also closed due to flooding! Tried to go there after TJs was closed.
Was it a water main break? I went to Whole Foods around 11 this morning and it was closed but the guards wouldn’t say why. Then I walked straight down to Trader Joe’s and it was open with no sign of a leak or flooding. Weird.