Stanley Zabar, brains behind the iconic NYC family grocery, dead at 94

Stanley Zabar, the co-owner and brains behind the iconic Upper West Side grocery store bearing his family’s name, has died. He was 94. Zabar, a “quiet force behind our family business,” died Monday from cancer, a spokesperson for the namesake grocer confirmed to The Post. “Stanley’s greatest devotion was to his family. A lifelong New Yorker, he and Judith raised their family on the Upper West Side, deeply embedded in the neighborhood that generations of Zabars have called home,” the family wrote on Instagram Wednesday. “He will be remembered for the business he helped build, the countless opportunities he created for others and his unwavering dedication to his family and community.” His death came just over a year after the passing of his older brother, Saul Zabar, whom he ran the family shop with for decades. The store is now being run by both Saul and Stanley’s children — the next generation of Zabars.

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