A reader spotted the vendor clearing out over the weekend, presumably for the customary winter hiatus — though the departure comes a little earlier than usual.
The stand has been a familiar presence on the corner for years.
There's no word yet on when the vendor might return (usually March or April).
For now, we'll hope this is just an early start to the winter break, and not a permanent departure.
24 comments:
Good news
I have nothing against the vendor...I will say though at night there are A LOT of rats running around this stretch, and well, that fruit just remains out there all night.
nice, the good news is that they will hopefully be gone forever, looks like my comment made it through finally. stop blocking negative comments against these vendors
I haven't blocked any comments critical of the vendors. The only comment I rejected contained a string of racist remarks about them. Criticism is OK here. Racism isn't.
yes you blocked my comment where I noted I was a village view resident and that they are rude and disrespectful and they use our private garden areas to store there items.
correct, my wife would never eat street fruit over supermarket fruit in NYC, its gross. Let alone all the particals, germs, people walking by. It's not sanitary at all
No, I didn't block your comment because I never received the one you're referring to.
I've been patronizing the fruit guys for years and hope everything is ok with them. It's always a welcome sign of spring when they return.
Look, those rats are New Yorkers too. Not transplants from Iowa.
As someone else who also lives on 6th street, I really hope they do not return. Our corner is not a brick and mortar for street vendors.
And this is great news for Metro Acres Market and their Manager Mohammad who is very nice. He will stock the shelves with whatever you ask him
Jeez, I remember the days when people would complain about drug dealers and junkies on the street...
Agree…times really have changed!!
If the corner of the street where you lived was constantly overwhelmed with street vendors you would complain too, you probably dont live on 6th street. there is no reason that the east village can't be as nice as the west village
I would rather have a drug dealer on the corner...because they leave after a while...these vendors are there 24/7 for years, its oppressive.
Anon. 9:16, I'm the commenter at 3PM. I've lived on 11th St between A and B for over 4 decades, and I remember the days when it was a 24/7 open air drug supermarket/stolen, stripped and abandoned car dump/hooker central. Believe me, a fruit vendor would've been welcome.
Village View is the biggest quality of life offender in the whole neighborhood. Their obnoxious ground crew walk around all day with noisy leaf blowers. I watched 1 worker blow the leaves from the sidewalk into the street. Three cars went by and the leaves were all back on the sidewalk. Repeat. Noise pollution at its worse.
That was 40 years ago and these vendors do not care about the neighborhood, they just want to make money. Super market are a better option and more clean
Gardening work, really? Never move to the suburbs or by a park. What next you complain about the noise of children in the park?
Maintaining the area is a good thing, vendors leeching on a corner 24/7 for years is not okay. Vendors should vend at large intersection like 14th street where they don’t infringe on residential areas and they are supposed to go home at night. Being open 24/7 and never leaving is, again, not okay
There's a difference between maintaining a property and subjecting the surrounding neighborhood to hours of leaf-blower noise. People aren't complaining about gardening. They're complaining about an unnecessarily loud and disruptive way of doing it. Rakes and brooms still exist. Anyway, Village View is suburban living in the middle of the East Village.
and what do you expect them to cut the grass with a sickle? you're being a bit unreasonable. During the fall months, sure they use a leaf blower on the sidewalk and a rake on the grass, sounds like the right combination and its affecting you right now, during fall moths. This corner has been overwhelmed with street vendors for years and they never leave. We finally have some peace and quiet on the street, Imagine if the leaf blower was active for 15 years 24/7, that would be a better comparison. Does the leaf blower also have two commercial trucks that illegally parks on the block and takes up space?
Yeah the drug dealers didn't care about the neighborhood either, and also only cared about money, difference was, a number of them had guns and mean dogs.
I don't understand the "this corner is overwhelmed by street vendors" comment. There is just one fruit vendor and the corner is next to a parking lot, not anyone's stoop. Anyway, I'm disappointed in the hate being expressed here.
You must not know the neighborhood well if you are only aware of 1 vendor on this corner...either way, until you have have multiple vendors active for years on your block that don't follow the rules - never leave, skirt commissary by never closing - you should really try to listen and hear the people that have experienced this and are happy to have some relief
Yeah, why do the Village View grounds crew blow leaves from the sidewalk onto 4th Street or Avenue A and 1st Avenue? I didn't know this was considered gardening.
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