Essex Market

125 Delancey Street | also 115 Delancey Street, 88 Essex Street | Lower East Side | built 2018

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1940

    January 9

    Mayor La Guardia opens the Essex Street Retail Market for pushcart vendors

    The market now at 125 Delancey traces back to January 9, 1940, when the city dedicated the Essex Street Retail Market just across Delancey Street. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia wanted pushcart peddlers off the Lower East Side's streets and under cover. The four-building complex had 475 stalls renting for $4.25 a week, part of a network of city-owned markets he had in mind.

    Source: Internet Archive

  2. 1966

    The city turns the Essex Street Market over to its vendors

    Supermarkets pulled shoppers away from the market in the 1950s, and in 1964 City Markets Commissioner Albert S. Pacetta proposed closing the city's seven indoor retail markets, Essex Street among them. The idea proved unpopular, and in 1966 the city turned the market over to its vendors, of whom there were more than 120. By the mid-1980s the number had dropped to 59.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1995

    The Economic Development Corporation spends $1.5 million to consolidate the old market into one building at 120 Essex

    After the vendors' cooperative lease ran out in 1987, the city began courting developers to buy the land, but a coalition of residents and officials, including City Councilmember Miriam Friedlander, helped save the market. In 1995 the New York City Economic Development Corporation began a $1.5 million renovation. It moved the vendors who had been spread across the old La Guardia-era buildings, which stood across Delancey Street from today's market, into a single building at 120 Essex Street.

    Source: essexmarket.nyc

  4. 2019

    May 13

    Essex Market vendors finish moving into the new building at Essex Crossing

    Essex Crossing, announced in 2013, called for moving the market into a new building at 88 Essex Street, which also carries the 125 Delancey address. The move was finished on May 13, 2019. The new space of 37,000 square feet was three times larger than the old market at 120 Essex, and most of the existing vendors moved in along with fifteen new ones.

    Source: Wikipedia

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