South Street Seaport

The June 21 market was the last event, founder Robert LaValva said today.

We're venturing a bit beyond our normal coverage area for this one -- but here's an upcoming installation with obvious relevance on the Lower East Side.   The New York chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design, is launching...

Editor's note: A short time ago, we posted an Op/Ed from New Amsterdam Market founder Robert LaValva concerning the future of the old Fulton Fish Market buildings at the Seaport. The piece addressed two TLD articles in which Kelly...

Editor's note: The following opinion piece was submitted by Robert LaValva, president and founder of the New Amsterdam Market: The Lo-Down’s two recent articles regarding the New Amsterdam Market and the Fulton Fish Market contain a number of incorrect statements...

Here's a bit more on yesterday's deal paving the way for the redevelopment of the South Street Seaport and the establishment of two new food markets there.   On more than one occasion in the past few years, City Council...

A short time ago, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced a deal has been reached with the Howard Hughes Corp. creating a new food market inside the historic Tin Building.  The concession is part of a larger agreement paving...

If you're a fan of the New Amsterdam Market, here's something you'll want to be following in the next few days and weeks.  Events now unfolding in city government may very well help determine whether the popular event stays...

From the archives: here's the scene outside FDNY Engine Company 4, near the South Street Seaport, last spring. Elected officials, firefighters and Lower Manhattan residents rallied to save the firehouse, a frequent target of Mayor Bloomberg's budget axe.  Fast...

On Sunday, City Council Speaker Chris Quinn and Councilmember Margaret Chin rang the bell to open the 2011 season of the New Amsterdam Market at the South Street Seaport.  In the last couple of years, they both have become...

When City Council Speaker Christine Quinn proposed a large scale regional food market at the South Street Seaport in her State of the City Address last month, no one was listening more intently than Robert LaValva.  After five years...