Save The Bay Ridge Greenmarket!
October 1st, 2008 by Ethan
What Bay Ridge greenmarket, you ask?
Good question.
The one that is starting this Saturday.
Why does it need saving if it hasn’t even begun?
According to The Brooklyn Paper, the new Council on the Environment NYC (CENYC) greenmarket in Bay Ridge is in a temporary location until January and will be moved or canceled if it does not earn vendors enough green.
“We know that we have a home through December,” Greenmarket Director Michael Hurwitz told The Brooklyn Paper on Monday. “We’ll see if it’s a success and we’ll ask Walgreens and see if we can stay here longer.”
The Greenmarket must close in January so that workers can “reface” the old Key Food at the corner of 95th Street and Third Avenue into the chain pharmacy that is scheduled to open in the spring, said Walgreens District Director Hien Nguyen.
After that, the future is murkier than that unfiltered apple cider.
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[The market will] feature locally grown fruits and vegetables, regional fish, cheeses, grass-fed beef, chicken, rabbit and pork, among other foods, every Saturday from 8 am to 5 pm.
Read the full story here and here.
Spread the word to Ridgites!
Go buy yourself some local organic produce and meats this Saturday and every Saturday…
…and SAVE THE BAY RIDGE GREENMARKET!
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December 7th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Keep the green market in Bay RIdge!! Get rid of needless stores like Walgren’s and bodagas.
August 4th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Hey everybody, I saw this blog and I just wanted to add some information about a MetroCard Deal at all 50 Greenmarkets throughout NYC. I work for MTA New York City Transit and we partnered with Greenmarkets, who are offering a free reusable bag when you show your MetroCard to the vendor. You have to hurry, though, only the first 50 people to show their MetroCard will receive a bag. For a list of all the Greenmarkets in NYC, visit http://www.cenyc.org and use Trip Planner to get directions there.