Kew Gardens' first grocery store was in the Homestead Building on Lefferts Avenue (Boulevard) at the corner of Cuthbert Road. The business failed under its first owner and was taken over by one Herman Heyer who did quite well with it. In the 1920's, it became Freudenberg & Spreckels Grocery Store and remained so until after World War II when new owners turned it into the Homestead Gourmet Deli.