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Essex Street Market
This 60-year-old historic shopping destination is the local place for produce, seafood, butcher-cut meats, cheeses, Latino grocery items, and even a barber’s shop and small art gallery. Though the legendary local stall of Schapiro’s kosher wine disappeared with the 2007 death of the company founder, now newer spots, like Formaggio Essex, with a grand display of artisanal cheeses, or Roni-Sue’s Chocolates, are attracting a new-generation clientele who want to shop in an old-school environment.
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Central Market
The bustling Central Market offers local produce, cheese, meats and Amish baked goods and crafts.
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City Market
The historic market is the crowded center of the district, with vendors hawking junky souvenirs from open-air stalls.
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Davis Farmers Market
The Davis Farmers Market features food vendors, street performers and live bands.
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Saturday Market
The best time to hit the river walk is on a weekend to catch the famous market, which showcases handicrafts, street entertainers and food carts.
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Saturday Market
The Saturday Market is actually open on both Saturday and Sunday. Head to it for live music, cheap food and great souvenirs from birch steins to birch syrup.
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Findlay Market
Indoor-outdoor Findlay Market greens the somewhat blighted area at downtown's northern edge. It's a good stop for fresh produce, meats, cheeses and baked goods. The Belgian waffle guy will wow your taste buds.
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Eastern Market
Produce, cheese, spice and flower vendors fill the large halls on Saturday, but you also can turn up Monday through Friday to browse the specialty shops (props to the peanut roaster), cafes and ethnic eats that flank the market on Russell and Market Sts.
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Zabar's
A bastion of gourmet-Kosher foodie-ism, this sprawling local market has been a neighborhood fixture since the 1930s. And what a fixture it is: featuring a heavenly array of cheeses, meats, olives, caviar, smoked fish, pickles, dried fruits, nuts and baked goods, including pillowy fresh-out-of-the-oven knishes (Eastern European–style potato dumplings wrapped in dough). Street vendors sell knishes all over New York. Most are of the frozen-industrial variety and have all the flavor of freeze-dried hockey pucks. Zabar’s is the place to try the real deal.
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Flower District
For a unique DIY adventure beginning at the northern edge of the Chelsea ’hood, wander through the small but fascinating Flower District on a weekday morning, when trucks unload massive amounts of fragrant, fresh flowers and plants, and where you can discover great decorative bargains, including bamboo reeds and cases of votive candles.
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Fremont Sunday Market
People come from all over town for the market. It features fresh fruit and vegetables, arts and crafts, and all kinds of people getting rid of junk.
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Portal Program
The Portal Program allows artisans with tribal enrollment to sell jewelry and art in front of the palace. It's a tradition that began in the 1880s, when Tesuque artisans began meeting the train with all manner of wares; today more than 1000 members representing almost every New Mexico tribe exhibit here at various times, alternating schedules to fill nearly 80 spaces beneath the vigas each morning.
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Viet Hoa
The Viet Hoa market (look for the ‘Chinatown Market-Seafood & Meat’ sign) has a greengrocer in one building and a fish and meat market in the other. Both display foods and cuts of meat you may have never seen before. The big tank of live turtles at the door and the buckets of fish that look like they’re one splash away from coming back to life assure you that this market carries only the freshest ingredients.
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O'ahu Market
The busy and colourful Chinatown district was settled around 1860 by Chinese immigrants who had worked off their sugarcane plantation contracts. Its bustling heart is the 1904 O'ahu Market, where you can get tattooed, consult with an herbalist, explore the temples and antique shops or eat at inexpensive restaurants.
While Chinatown is a fun place to explore during the day, walking around at night is not recommended due to drug and gang activity.
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Spofford Alley
Sun Yat-sen once plotted the overthrow of China’s Manchu dynasty here at number 36, and during Prohibition, this was the site of turf battles over local bootlegging and protection rackets. Spofford has mellowed with age; it’s now lined with senior community centers. But the action still starts around sundown, when a Chinese orchestra strikes up a tune, the clicking of a mah-jong game begins, and beauty parlor owners and florists use the pretense of sweeping their doorsteps to gossip.
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Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market
This semi-enclosed market does a brisk trade in just about everything: leather goods, crafts, textiles, bootleg CDs, oils, drums, clothing, sculptures and a stupendous array of assorted African everything. It’s also, coincidentally, an excellent spot to get your hair braided. The market is run by the Malcolm Shabazz Mosque, the former pulpit of slain Muslim orator Malcolm X.
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El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe
In a huge warehouse at the developing Santa Fe Railyard site, the kid-friendly El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe is an all-in-one museum, gallery, performance space and community arts center designed for local Hispanic youth. With exhibits by internationally known artists and others still in grade school, plus all manner of displays geared toward home-schooled kids, this is a great place to introduce your own children to la cultura Nuevomexicana. The huge warehouse space hosts art openings, live music and theater. The Santa Fe Farmers Market is also ensconced here in the winter.
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Islesford Market
The Cranberry Isles (www.cranberryisles.com) are delightful, primarily because they’re so off the beaten path. The 400 acre Little Cranberry, more commonly known as Islesford, is about 20 minutes offshore from Southwest Harbor. Diversions include a few galleries, a couple of B&Bs and the Islesford Market, where the 80-some year-rounders and 400-some summer folk gather around like it’s their own kitchen. The Beal & Bunker Mailboat offers frequent year-round service between Northeast Harbor and the Cranberry Isles.
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Brimfield Antique Show
Six miles west of Sturbridge along US 20 is the Brimfield Antique Show, a mecca for collectors of antique furniture, toys and tools. More than 6000 sellers and 130,000 buyers gather to do business in 23 farmers’ fields here; it’s the largest outdoor antiques fair in North America, and possibly the world. The town has numerous shops open year-round, but the major antiques and collectibles shows are held in early to mid-May, early July and early September, usually from Tuesday through Sunday. The more ‘premium’ fields charge an admission fee of around $6, but most are free.
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Chelsea Market
In a shining example of redevelopment and preservation, the Chelsea Market has taken a former factory of cookie giant Nabisco (creator of the Oreo) and turned it into an 800ft-long shopping concourse that caters to foodies. And that’s only the lower part of a larger, million-sq-ft space that occupies a full city block, current home of TV channels the Food Network, Oxygen Network and NY1, the local news channel. The prime draw for shoppers, though, are the more than two dozen food shops, including Amy’s Bread, Fat Witch Bakery, the Lobster Place, Hale & Hearty Soup, Ronnybrook Dairy and the Nutbox. You can also sit down and indulge at lunch spots such as the Green Table…
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Hilo Farmers Market
Nearly 20 years old, Hilo's Farmers Market is an island-wide event, as locals gather from all over to shop for fresh produce and catch up with friends. Covered stalls sell top-quality island produce: papayas, liliko'i, breadfruit, apple bananas, mangoes and star fruit. You'll find lots of Asian greens, organic vegetables and local produce. There's prepared food, too: bento boxes (with Spam musubi) and machete-cut coconuts for drinking.
A huge number of craft and clothing stalls also lay out their wares: browse for sarongs and T-shirts, rubbah slippahs and wood carvings, shell jewelry and coconut-leaf baskets. There's some wonderful stuff, but not all the crafts are…
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United House Wrecking, Inc.
Even if you’re one of those folks who reflexively yawns – or gags – at the thought of ‘going antiquing, ’ the extraordinary United House Wrecking, Inc. is well worth a visit. Upon pulling into the parking lot you may be greeted with a 15ft-tall Pinocchio standing with a 12ft Statue of Liberty, flanked by dozens of lampposts or scores of cherubic garden sculptures. Inside, the 35,000-sq-ft warehouse holds vintage chandeliers, stained glass, furniture and classy knickknacks of all sorts. No room in the car for that one-of-a-kind fireplace mantle? No worries – they ship world-wide. (Hyperactive children and accident-prone adults may want to wait outside with…
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West Side Market
The European-style market overflows with greengrocers and their fruit and vegetable pyramids, as well as purveyors of Hungarian sausage, Mexican flat breads and Polish pierogi.
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Dane County Farmers Market
On Saturdays, a food bazaar takes over Capitol Sq. It's one of the nation's most expansive markets, famed for its artisanal cheeses. All the cheese, veggies, flowers and breads are made by the folks behind the 150 vendor tables.
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Farmers Market
The waterfront where writer and adventurer Jack London once raised hell now bears his name. It's hardly a roughshod district anymore, but a tourist-oriented shopping mall dotted with chain restaurants, chain stores and cute little gift shops. The waterfront location is lovely, though, and for that reason it's worth a stroll - especially on Sunday, when a weekly farmers market takes over. Catch a ferry from San Francisco and you'll land just paces away.
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