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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Public Markets | Fall 2019
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New York City Public Markets are unique public places that celebrate the rich history, diverse cultures, communities, and cuisine of the city we love. New York City Public Markets are unique public places that celebrate the rich history, diverse cultures, communities, and cuisine of the city we love. GOOD THINGS ARE IN STORE! […]