During the SPURA debates, BoweryBoogie reports that someone floated the idea of moving the Essex Street Market. As he notes, LES resident Cynthia Lamb is leading the crusade against such plans. Sign the petition to keep the market where it is ... find the petition here.
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I signed it and encourage others to as well. And for those who say, "what good does it do to sign a petition?" Well, I'm not sure, but I do know it can't hurt anything.
Done.
The LES Girls Club is in the Essex Market- but frankly- if the market ended up being moved to the base of the new SPURA buildings to be built south of Delancey, business would probably be even better because the tenants would shop on their way home.
Just a thought!
Keep the market where it is. The overwhelming sentiment amongst people who spoke at the SPURA guidelines meetings was to keep it where it is and fix it up to better serve the needs of the tenants who make their livelihood there.
This decision should not be made to serve the needs of the current Grand Street and Seward Park co-op owners, whose sole interest seems to be their property values. Any plan to move the market will likely include a promise to give existing tenants first crack at moving to the new location, the same promise that was made decades ago to the residents forced from their homes. We know how that worked out.
a new location would probably be great...but realistically, leave it alone and focus on the football fields of parked cars and broken bottles...
Frankly Lynn the new SPURA project stinks and the people ought to sue. The original tenants were kicked out of their homes and promised the ability to return if the area was going to be redeveloped. This is city owned land that belongs to the people. We don't need anymore market rate housing period. The 50/50 model will only further the development of more market rate housing. It just doesn't work what don't you see. People on the SPURA development committee were all in agreement that the Essex Street Market should remain, but who knows who's singing a different tune today. Between residents who have and continue to be forced out of their tenement apartments, and the bullshit with this hotel not a hotel on Ludlow, etc., and this development of something on the south side of Delancey directly across from one SPURA parking lot does not look like a small or affordable project, so who's kidding who, and all of the other developments going on in the Lower East Side and EV in the end will not create any affordable housing which is so desperately needed.
Couln't agree more Cookiepuss, but I think that development is on the North side of Delancey? I have no idea what it is but it looks big?
Yeah, cos the last thing the LES needs is another glass and steel Godzilla towering over it. And who can resist a building that, when you stand in just the right spot on the Essex Street side, reads "SEX STREET/TAIL MARKET"?
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