A City Market Moves Across the Street

NEW YORK — The pending relocation of the Essex Street Market — a city-run market space, one of several first established by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in the 1940s as an alternative to street vendors — is happening this fall. It will be one part of a huge new indoor market building being built across Delancey Street. All but one of the market’s 25 vendors are moving in the first wave, including Pain d’Avignon, Nordic Preserves, Osaka Grub, Puebla Mexican Food, New Star Fish market, Shopsin’s General Store and Saxelby Cheesemongers, a shop selling craft American cheeses and owned by Anne Saxelby. She said that like most of the other establishments, her space would be expanding (more than doubling to 300 square feet) in the new market, which will be on two floors and occupy 37,000 square feet. In February, 14 new vendors — including Samesa for Middle Eastern food, Chinatown Ice Cream Factory and Essex Shambles, the butcher shop — will move in. In addition, dozens of market stalls are also coming in 2019 to another part of the three-block development, a privately run space called Market Line.