Rocktober is kicking off in fine fashion ... with a street fair/festival on Third Avenue from Astor Place to
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.
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.
ReplyDeleteAstor-9th is curated food vendors like those found at Hester St, Smorgasbord, etc.
ReplyDelete@3:08pm: Ah, yes, just what I always wanted, a street fair with "curated" food. NOT.
ReplyDeleteLooks 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.
ReplyDeletedoesn't food get curated from the other end?
ReplyDelete"Where are our politicians?" To do what, to stop people from eating?
ReplyDeleteHey nanny at 2:05pm:
ReplyDelete'Don't like it? Don't eat or drink it.
Street fairs completely disrupt bus service . This is a major issue for elderly,disabled, people with small children etc who cannot manage subways
ReplyDeleteAnd on weekends when track work is in progress sometimes no nearby subway either
No impact on the young-affluent demographic who use Uber everywhere...