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#345 LaGuardia's War on Pushcarts: The Creation of Essex Street Market
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
Once upon a time, the streets of the Lower East Side were lined with pushcarts and salespeople haggling with customers over the price of fruits, fish and pickles. Whatever became of them? New York's earliest marketplaces were large and surprisingly well regulated hubs for commerce that kept the city fed. When the city…
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