Wegmans Food Markets is hiring for its New York City store, which it plans to open this fall.

The 74,000-square-foot store will be in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and will be the anchor store for a $140 million redevelopment of the Admirals Row site.

Wegmans stores typically run between 75,000-140,000 square feet. The DeWitt store is 152,000 square feet.

Rochester-based Wegmans first announced the new store was coming in May 2015.

The store will employ about 500 people, including 150 full-time positions, Wegmans officials announced.

The new store is slated to have a second-floor mezzanine with nearly 100 seats for an in-store market café. It will also have a bar serving food, wine, beer and spirits. .

In business since 1916, Wegmans now operates 98 stores in six states and has more than 48,000 employees chainwide. The company is set to open two other locations in new markets in 2019 - one in Virginia Beach, Va. and another in Raleigh, N.C.

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