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What Is a Public Market? | Episode 259

Public markets are one of the foundational institutions of urban life. The Project for Public Spaces defines public markets as indoor or outdoor markets that “operate in public space, serve locally …

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How World War I Changed the Way New Yorkers Eat | Episode 206

April 6 marks the 104th anniversary of America’s entry into World War I, but the impacts of this global conflict were already being felt in New York City. Starting in …

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Holiday Plants at Urban Garden Center | Episode 169

Urban Garden Center has been a fixture of Spanish Harlem since the 1950’s, and today their beautiful shop occupies a massive two-block stretch along Park Avenue in the historic La Marqueta. We …

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Voices of Essex Market with Feed Me A Story | Episode 75

In celebration of Lower East Side History Month, join us for a conversation with Theresa Loong, Laura Nova, and Sarah Kramer about Feed Me A Story’s video and audio documentation …

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From Orchard to Essex: Street Peddlers and Market Vendors with the Tenement Museum

When Essex Street Market opened in 1940, it was heralded as a new era for commerce, as the city promised to clear the streets of pushcart peddlers and provide a …

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Feeding NYC: The History of the Supermarket | Episode 64

During the pandemic, supermarkets are the few public places that people still frequent, so this is a perfect time to look back at the history of grocery stores in America …

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A Year in Review at Essex Market | Episode 63

On May 13, 2019, Essex Market moved from its 1940 building to a new home at Essex Crossing, opening a new chapter in the market’s history by adding 13 new …

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The first and second floors of the Essex Market with a historic neon sign from the Orchard Essex Meat Market

The History of NYC Public Markets, Part 2 | Episode 22

Take a deep dive into the history of New York City’s public markets, which have their origins in a vast food distribution system set up by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in …

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The History of NYC Public Markets, Part 1 | Episode 7

Take a deep dive into the history of New York City’s public markets, which have their origins in a vast food distribution system set up by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in …

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The Great War and NYC: Street Vendors and Public Markets

New York City was far removed from the battlefields, occupied territories, and blockaded countries locked in the struggle of the First World War. While many of those places experienced food …

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A mail truck transformed into a market wagon carrying food

Press Release: Turnstile Tours Launches New Weekly Tour of Essex Street Market Sept. 25

Turnstile Tours & Essex Street Market Vendors Association launch weekly 90-minute tasting tours of the market, every Sunday beginning September 25 Tours include 5–7 tastings and opportunities to meet the …

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The outside of a market that's painted colorfully with designs that include painted vegetables, fruit, and geometric shapes

Makansutra: Eating In New York

Makansutra, September 20, 2015 by KF Seetoh I was taken on a food and heritage spin around Brooklyn, “to places where tourist would look out of place” ironically by Cindy …

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Workers walk alongside a large stone dry dock in the Brooklyn Navy Yard with two white tugboats below and a red and white crane on the right.

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