Arthur Avenue Retail Market
2344 Arthur Avenue | also 2331 Hughes Avenue | Belmont | built 1940
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1940
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia opens the Arthur Avenue Retail Market to ease street-vendor crowding
The Arthur Avenue Retail Market opened in 1940 under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, meant to ease the crowding caused by street vendors and to raise safety standards for food sellers. Atlas Obscura calls it the oldest covered retail market in the Bronx. Its stalls now sell Italian groceries such as osso buco cuts, salt cod and San Marzano tomatoes, alongside the Cafe al Mercato pizza counter and the Bronx Beer Hall.
Source: atlasobscura.com
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