Essex Street Market

You've heard all the buzz about the NYC Bike Share program for the last few months. Maybe you voted online for a station in the neighborhood. It's scheduled to launch this summer, and this weekend is your chance to...

Cuchifritos, the gallery space in the Essex Street Market, is accepting proposals for 2013.  The space, a project of the Artists Alliance, is all about nurturing under-represented contemporary artists and onnecting with the larger community on the Lower East...

For generations the Essex Street Market has been a neighborhood source for meat, fish, produce, groceries and specialty items. It is fast becoming something of an eclectic, high-end food court as well - a dining destination. Unlike Philadelphia’s Reading...

Yesterday, we wrote about the upcoming public hearing regarding the Seward Park redevelopment project.  On October 11th, residents will have the chance to speak out about the "draft scoping document," the final version of which will guide a comprehensive...

I was among those gutted when Jeffrey Ruhalter closed his iconic Essex Street Market butcher shop. The market lost one of its colorful characters that day, not to mention the most direct link with its history, aside from the...

Shoppers at the Essex Street Market are discovering some exciting new options. The most conspicuous addition is the Heritage Meat Market, which is just now setting up in a portion of the space once occupied by longtime Essex Market...

Neighbors ask me: Do you buy fish in Chinatown? I do. “Where?,” is the next question.  It’s not quite that simple. Buying seafood is a caveat emptor scenario; ignorance is not rewarded. I know people who rarely eat seafood at...

You've devoured their creations at the Hester Street Fair. Now the Brooklyn Taco Company is gaining a permanent home on the Lower East Side. This afternoon we learned proprietors Jesse Kramer and Erica Molina are taking a small stall...

Last year I lived in LA for a few months. That town is set up to keep the hoi polloi from mixing with the celebrities and big shots . One thing I love about New York is that, in...

The NYC Small Business Services department named Essex Street Market vendor Saxelby Cheesemongers as its top Manhattan company this week as part of its "Neighborhood Achievement Awards." The Small Business of the Year Award honors "an entrepreneur whose business has significantly...