Bronx Terminal Market

610 Exterior Street | also 610 River Avenue | Concourse Village | built 2007

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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

  1. 1935

    December 21

    Mayor La Guardia bans artichokes citywide from the old wholesale market on this site

    Before the mall, this ground held the city's Bronx Terminal Market, a wholesale fruit and vegetable complex built in 1934-35 under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's pushcart-market program. On December 21, 1935, La Guardia came to the market and declared a ban on selling, displaying or possessing artichokes anywhere in the city, aiming at mobsters such as Ciro Terranova who had driven up their price. The ban was lifted within a year.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 2004

    David Buntzman sells his lease on the old market to the Related Companies for $42.5 million

    Before the mall, this ground held the old Bronx Terminal Market. As the city began knocking down the declining market, its merchants' association asked developer David Buntzman for help; he took a 99-year lease in 1972 and ran the market until 2004. At its peak it had nearly 100 tenants and over 1,000 workers and was the country's largest wholesale market for Hispanic foods. After long legal fights with the city, he sold his stake to the Related Companies in 2004 for $42.5 million.

    “Buntzman sold his interest to the Related Companies for $42.5 million in 2004.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 2006

    August 14

    Work starts on the Gateway Center mall, clearing the old market buildings except the Prow Building

    Construction of the shopping center, then called Gateway Center at Bronx Terminal Market, began on August 14, 2006, after a Community Benefits Agreement was signed. Every building on the acquired land was demolished except the Prow Building, a 20,500-square-foot survivor of the old market at East 149th Street, Exterior Street and River Avenue. Related had also bought and demolished the nearby 1937 Bronx House of Detention, saving some of its architectural details.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 2009

    September 12

    The $500 million Bronx Terminal Market mall opens to shoppers

    The Home Depot became the first anchor to open, on April 23, 2009, followed by BJ's on August 1, and the rest of the center opened on September 12. The $500 million project holds just under one million square feet of stores on a 17-acre site, with its two main buildings joined by a six-level, 2,600-car garage, and it earned a LEED Silver award. Early tenants included Target, Best Buy, Marshalls and the Bronx's only Bed Bath & Beyond.

    Source: Wikipedia

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