Essex Crossing

A new Trader Joe's, Target and hundreds of new apartments (some luxury, some below-market rate) are the most obvious signs that the Lower East Side is undergoing dramatic change. But two community organizations are about to remind  us that...

No line outside the new Trader Joe's on Grand Street yet! The 30,000 square foot store in the basement of the Essex Crossing building known as "The Rollins" opens this morning at 8 o'clock. We'll be checking back later...

Trader Joe's has released a statement announcing an October 19th opening at their new Lower East Side store at 400 Grand Street. The company will celebrate with a grand opening event including "live music, food tastings, giveaways, and more,"

It's a big blow for the Essex Street Market. On Saturday, a letter went up alongside Saxelby Cheesemongers' stall announcing that the business, a stalwart in the historic public market, would be closing its Lower East Side location at the end of this month.

The old Essex Street Market has served its purpose for 78 years. Turns out, the 1940 building on the northeast corner of Essex and Delancey streets will be put to use for at least a few weeks longer.

Brooklyn-based Ample Hills Creamery is coming to the Market Line at Essex Crossing.

Starting this morning, the new Target store on the Lower East Side is open for business. The 22.500 square foot 'small format" outpost is located at 145 Clinton St., at Grand Street. There was a ribbon cutting and party last...

By the fall, the first phase of the Essex Crossing project in the former Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) will be mostly completed.

A little more local flavor for the Market Line, the big retail pavilion that's part of the Essex Crossing project.

Here's a photo from Alan LeNoble showing the dismantling of a construction hoist at 115 Delancey St. That's one of the Essex Crossing towers. There's a huge mobile crane positioned in the northbound lane of Essex Street. It is...