NYC9/11 Public Portal Document
Farm Vendors Get a New Spot, in Brooklyn
■ • The greenmarket outside Brooklyn’s Bor-
6ugh Hall is open on Tuesdays and Satur
days. But yesterday, passersby saw the
f^iliar tents of ... a greenmarket? The
farmers who were there had lost their usual
spot at the World Trade Center.
‘'The Council on the Environment of New
York City, which runs the city’s greenmar
kets, is scrambling to find new locations for
43 farmers displaced from the attack site
and from markets that subsequently closed
urTriBeCa, Bowling Green, and Dag Ham-
raarskjold Plaza. Borough Hall has added
Thursdays to accommodate them.
, '“They just decided to get us something,
somewhere to go,” said Kemie Kernan, who
feft behind his stands, scales, money and
produce when he fled the trade center on
Sept. 11. The farmers at the 12 stands there
that day all escaped unharmed, although
some also lost their trucks.
. - Business in the new location has been fair,
{4r. Kernan said, but “nothing like the
World Trade Center,” where for 18 years his
family had built up a clientele. “A lot of the
customers, I know,” he said. “I hope most of
them are all right.”
TARA BAHRAMPOUR
N^cfT Ruby Washingion/The New York Times
Altogether, the attack displaced 43 farmers from city greenmarkets. Some have moved
to Borough Hall in Brooklyn. One had been at the World Trade Center for 18 years.
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