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The Essex Street Market building on the south side of Delancey Street; April 2014.
The developers of Essex Crossing have now filed pre-demolition documents for the old Essex Street Market building on the south side of Delancey Street. The site is one of nine former urban renewal parcels included in the nearly 2 million square foot residential and commercial project.
Previously, Delancey Street Associates, the development consortium, filed initial paperwork to tear down the former firehouse on Broome Street as well as 400-402 Grand St., twin tenement buildings. In the past, they have pointed out that demolition is still several months in the future; the city won’t officially transfer the property to the developers for some time. The first phase of the project, set to begin next year, is focused on development of sites 1, 2 and 5 (see map).
As we reported in the last several days, demolition is scheduled to begin this week on the vacant building on the south side of Delancey Street that once housed a portion of the Essex Street Market. The 1940 structure will be replaced by a 24-story residential and commercial tower as part of the big Essex Crossing project. We stopped by to snap some fresh images of the building, a part of Lower East Side history.
Seventy-five years ago, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia built the market to get the neighborhood’s pushcarts off the street. In 1995, the Essex Street Market was consolidated into a single building on the northeast corner of Essex and Delancey streets. That facility will remain open until the new building – including a gleaming new market space – is ready for occupancy in the year 2018. Jade Fountain Liquors and Olympic Diner were forced to close due to the looming development.
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What Is NYCHA? Your Questions Answered About New York City Public Housing
If the population were a state, it’d be as big as Wyoming, or Vermont. Figuring out how to repair the crumbling, enormous housing system has stymied leaders for years as tenants suffer.
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Officially, just under 400,000 people live in New York City Housing Authority buildings. But that’s the on-the-books tally.
The total population is likely much higher: According to sanitation department figures cited by NYCHA’s federal monitor in 2019, the real number may be as high as 600,000.