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On July 17, seven farmers from "Long Island, New Jersey and upstate New York" participated in selling at the first greenmarket which quickly became successful. New York City Department of City Planning proposed to open a second farmers market at Union Square and a third one in Brooklyn. The Union Square Market opened on August 30, 1976, and the ...
Tompkins Square Park is a 10.5-acre (4.2 ha) public park in the Alphabet City portion of East Village, Manhattan, New York City.The square-shaped park, bounded on the north by East 10th Street, on the east by Avenue B, on the south by East 7th Street, and on the west by Avenue A, is abutted by St. Marks Place to the west.
New York City Landmark (2008) [182] Public National Bank of New York Building 106 Avenue C at 7th Street 1923 New York City Landmark (2008) [183] Public School 64 (former) 350 East 10th Street between Avenues B and C 1904–1906 New York City Landmark (2006) [184] St. Nicholas of Myra Church: 288 East 10th Street at Avenue A 1882–3
The East 10th Street Historic District is a small historic district located in the Alphabet City area of the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.It includes all 26 buildings, numbered 293 to 345, on East 10th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B, across from Tompkins Square Park.
Several scenes from the 1986 film "Crocodile Dundee" were filmed in and around a bar located at 108 Avenue B where that street intersects with East 7th Street, otherwise known as Tompkins Square. On Lou Reed's 1989 album New York, the song "Halloween Parade" includes the line "The boys from Avenue B, the girls from Avenue D, a Tinkerbell in ...
On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, a grocery store here was plumb out of eggs. An hour and a half north in Richfield, some eggs could be had, but they weren’t cheap. That dozen cost $1.70 more ...
The Marcy Playground song Vampires of New York on their debut album Marcy Playground (album) instructs the listener to "Come take in 8th street after dark". The New York anti-folk artist Jeffrey Lewis references St. Mark's Place in the song "Scowling Crackhead Ian" as the location in which Lewis and the eponymous Ian grew up and remain.
The two-block section was renamed in 1954 after Asser Levy, one of the first Jewish citizens of New York City, and a strong and influential advocate for civil liberties. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The eastern side of Asser Levy Place contains the Asser Levy Recreation Center , [ 6 ] [ 7 ] which includes the Asser Levy Public Baths , built in 1905-08.