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La Marqueta in June 2007 Vacant spaces in La Marqueta in October 2009. La Marqueta is a marketplace under the Metro-North Railroad's Park Avenue Viaduct between 111th Street and 116th Street on Park Avenue in East Harlem in Manhattan, New York City. Its official address is 1590 Park Avenue.
In the 1930s, New York City Parks Commissionmer Robert Moses installed playgrounds and a pool. The Boys Choir of Harlem was established in the neighborhood in 1968. [9] In 1973, the name of the land was changed to Marcus Garvey Park. This was in honor of the international Pan-African movement leader.
The St. Nicholas Historic District, known colloquially as "Striver's Row", [3] is a historic district located on both sides of West 138th and West 139th Streets between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue), in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City.
Best Market was a family-owned, regional supermarket chain with 30 stores in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. The company was headquartered in Bethpage, New York, and had been owned by the Raitses family since the company's first store opened in Lake Ronkonkoma, New York, in 1994. [1] [2]
Gourmet Garage is a chain of specialty/natural food markets with four locations in Manhattan as of 2022. The company began as Flying Foods, a specialty food distributor, and transitioned into retail in 1992. [1] Gourmet Garage's 3 locations were purchased by Village Super Markets, a member of the Wakefern Food Corporation cooperative, in 2019. [2]
Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem was founded as a soul food restaurant located at 328 Malcolm X Boulevard, between 126th and 127th Streets, in Harlem [1] in 1962 by Sylvia Woods. [2] It has since expanded to a much larger space at its present location, and an adjacent building.
Moore Street Market, often referred to as La Marqueta de Williamsburg, [1] is one of four surviving public markets built by mayor Fiorello La Guardia in New York City in 1941 to get pushcarts off crowded and unclean streets. It is located at 110 Moore Street in the Williamsburg neighborhood of northern Brooklyn.
Charles' Country Pan Fried Chicken, a.k.a. Charles' Southern Style Kitchen, is a soul food and Southern Food restaurant located at 2461 Frederick Douglass Blvd (between 131st & 132nd Streets), in Harlem in Manhattan, in New York City. [1] It was featured on Al Roker's episode of My Life in Food. [2]