Saturday, October 1, 2016

Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!



Rocktober is kicking off in fine fashion ... with a street fair/festival on Third Avenue from Astor Place to 114th Street 14th Street.

EVG deputized Street Fair correspondent OlympiasEpiriot shared the above photo.

As noted last week, the de Blasio administration is proposing changes to the city’s street fairs to make them less tube socky and generic.

8 comments:

cmarrtyy said...

The city promote healthy living; reduce salt, reduce fats, reduce sugar, reduce pollution. Then what does it do? It promotes street fairs that feature salt, sugar, fats and creates pollution from traffic jams. Where are our politicians. NOWHERE TO BE SEEN.

Anonymous said...

Astor-9th is curated food vendors like those found at Hester St, Smorgasbord, etc.

Anonymous said...

@3:08pm: Ah, yes, just what I always wanted, a street fair with "curated" food. NOT.

thisiskdo said...

Looks like they are starting to deliver on making these fairs less cookie cutter. 'Curated' may be a hipsterish word but it was a good good scene. And some of the vendors were new. There was a Russian (?) selling 'interesting things' that actually were a lot of cheap and useful odds and ends. I ended up getting a small fingernail kit to keep at my office but wanted to buy a lot more.

JQ LLC said...

doesn't food get curated from the other end?

Anonymous said...

"Where are our politicians?" To do what, to stop people from eating?

Anonymous said...

Hey nanny at 2:05pm:

'Don't like it? Don't eat or drink it.

Anonymous said...

Street fairs completely disrupt bus service . This is a major issue for elderly,disabled, people with small children etc who cannot manage subways

And on weekends when track work is in progress sometimes no nearby subway either

No impact on the young-affluent demographic who use Uber everywhere...