The new mixed-use mega-project on the Lower East Side heals a civic wound with hundreds of affordable apartments, community perks and a sleek home for Essex Market.
Even half-done, Essex Crossing, on the Lower East Side, is shaping up as one of New York’s most promising new mixed-use developments — the anti-Hudson Yards.
A $1.9 billion, six-acre, for-profit mega-project occupying several blocks around Delancey Street where traffic barrels onto and off the Williamsburg Bridge, it replaces what had been a vast no-man’s land and gaping civic wound with new subsidized apartments, a bushel of community perks, parkland, a movie multiplex, office and retail space for local businesses and a capacious new home for the city-owned Essex Market.
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NYT | Harlem Night Market
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Food will be a major focus at what is being billed at Manhattan’s first night market, to begin this weekend. It will occupy the renovated areas of the historic East Harlem market, La Marqueta, with a savory food court occupied by vendors like Harlem Shake, Eggroll Queen, and Sisters Cuisine; a sweet food court with […]