DEP Press Advisory on Deer Hunting Cancellation, October 2, 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Uprooted Greenmarkets Seek Spaces Greenwich Street (between Chambers and rector of the city’s Greenmarket program. By MARIAN BURROS Reade Streets in TriBeCa) and Dag Ham- Even those farmers who did not lose their -marskiold--Plftza7-wlwh--was--shttt-dowri-be“ "rnarketplaces TtavF^experiehced a drop in HE 16 farmers who had set up cause of il.s proximliy lo ihi- Uniied Nniions. business, both Irom restaurant clients and their stalls at the Greenmarkei at The Greenwich Sireei larineis luivi neighborhood shoppers. Liberty and Church Streets on found a new home in a parking lol ai Worlh Sept. 11 escaped with their lives lony Mannetta, Greenmarket director, and West Broadway. The borough Hall niai - e.siimates, assuming half the markets are when the twin towers were destroyed. ket at Cadman Plaza in brouklyn. open on though several suffered smoke inhalation re-established, that displaced farmers will Tuesdays and Saturoays, has added I hurs- and bums, and 10 lost their trucks. Traffic lose :ii leasi $500,000 in sales this year. Some day hours to accommodate displaced I arm restrictions below Canal Street since then ers. unsold produce was used to help feed rescue have forced the closing of three other mar­ And a new market may soon stand in workers. kets, and security concerns have closed the front of All Souls Church at Lexington Ave­ A lund has been set up to help farmers one at the United Nations. That means there nue and 80th Street if the necessary permits who lo.si their stalls, produce and equipment are more than 40 farmers with lots of can be secured. tn the twin towers disaster. For information, produce and nowhere to sell it. “We are reaching out to everyone to help contact the Farmers’ Market Federation of Forced to strike their tents were the mar­ the displaced farmers, and people are re­ New York. 2100 Park Street, Syracuse, N.Y. kets at Bowling Green, Federal Plaza, sponding,’’ said Joel Patraker, assistant di- 1320S.

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