70 years ago in The Villager
From the pages of The Villager
70 years ago
It was found that Mayor La Guardia’s order to abolish open-air merchandise carts from the Lower East Side — which resulted in the construction of the enclosed Essex St. Market — did not apply to the Bleecker St. pushcart merchants in Greenwich Village. The reason, according to a mayoral spokesperson, was that Bleecker St. sold only fruit, vegetables and fish, as opposed to the clothes and merchandise sold on the Lower East Side.
