A plant-based community fridge arrives outside Essex Market

A new plant-based community fridge opened this past weekend outside Essex Market on Broome Street between Essex and Norfolk.

Here's some info via the EVG inbox: It is run by Artist Athletes Activists, an organization founded by Power Malu (pictured above in the light-blue shirt). You can find information about volunteering or making donations to the fridge at this link. 

This is the second plant-based community fridge for the neighborhood ... joining the one that arrived in February outside Overthrow Boxing Club at 9 Bleecker St. just west of the Bowery. 

Both of the fridges are accessible 24/7. 

Top photo by George Grullon; second photo by Gary Dean Clarke. 

Mil Mundos Books will continue on at Essex Market

Photos by Stacie Joy

Back in October, the Bushwick-based Mil Mundos Books opened a stall on Fridays and weekends inside Essex Market... it was to be up through just the end of 2020. 

So we were pleasantly surprised to see the bookshop still up and running back on Friday...

The folks at Mil Mundos confirmed that they will be here "until further notice." 

The bilingual bookstore, which "curates to celebrate Black, Latinx and Indigenous heritage," is open Friday through Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. Their stall is on the northwest entrance ... on Delancey at Essex. Follow them on Instagram here.