The Essex Street Market is a Lower East Side staple when it comes to fresh food and prepared goods. Meet the vendors in this profile series and swing by the market all month long during May to celebrate 75 years of Essex Street Market. Meet Essex Farm, a grocery store inside the market that offers […]
I was a lawyer and got laid-off in 2009. I came to the Market for some coffee and chocolate, saw the empty stall, and in a split second it clicked a bakery specializing in homemade Greek comfort food!
I’d say my recipes are a mix of the traditional. The spinach pie is inspired by my grandmother, but the spin I put on it is cleaner, lighter, and more modern.
When someone tastes my food I want them to feel joy, and seeing that makes me very happy.
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Carmine Morales, owner of Classic Coffee Shop. Nodas Kekatos, owner of Zafi’s Luncheonnette at 500 Grand St. Photo by Alex M. Smith. Luis Miguel Collado, owner of El Castillo at 131 Rivington St. Photo by Alex M. Smith. Steve Palakas, co-owner of Olympic Diner. John Vasilopoulos, co-owner of Cup & Saucer Luncheonette. Nick Castanos, co-owner of Cup & Saucer. Photo by Alex M. Smith.
Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the April 2013 edition of The Lo-Down’s print Magazine.
One of the things that makes New York City great is its classic neighborhood diners. On the Lower East Side, we’ve got our share of these old-school spots places that are so familiar some of us think of them as extensions of our own apartments. In a world that’s becoming more impersonal, there’s something comforting about these no-nonsense hangouts. They’ll make you anything you want, exactly the way you want it, and fast! The guys behind the counter are quic
Rendering: Essex Crossing. ShoP Architects.
On Wednesday evening, members of the Essex Crossing development team provided Community Board 3’s land use committee with a status report. The nearly 2-million square foot residential and commercial complex is scheduled for groundbreaking by the middle of next year. Isaac Henderson, the project manager, led the informal briefing, along with Annel Cabrera, who was hired earlier this year as director of community relations for Delancey Street Associates, the consortium building the project in the former Seward Park Urban renewal area. Here’s what they told committee members:
Final designs for phase one of the project (including the first four buildings) will be unveiled Jan. 14 at CB3’s land use committee meeting. There will also be a larger public presentation at Grand Street Settlement Jan. 28. This past summer, the developers told us they planned to release renderings to the general public before 2014 drew to a close. While membe
185 Broome St.
The other day we reported that the developers of Essex Crossing had filed a pre-demolition application for two tenements, 400 and 402 Grand St. They pointed out that a demo permit will not be in hand for several months; the city will first require the development team to complete a lengthy checklist. Now similar documents have been filed with the Department of Buildings for another structure on the same development parcel.
In a filing recorded on Friday, BFC Partners (one of four Essex Crossing developers), started the process to tear down 185 Broome St., the old fire house on the north end of site #5. The area where the building now sits will become a 15,000 square foot park. In recent years, the structure served as home to Angel Aerial, a movie prop business. Although the city took possession of the property last summer, the company continues to use the parcel for storage. In the past few weeks, workers have been emptying the building; various items are now str