New Amsterdam Market Returns To The Seaport - Sunday, June 29, 2008
Celebrating regional & sustainable food systems and New York's public market legacy.
In its ongoing campaign to establish a permanent, indoor public market in the historic, public-owned Fulton Fish Market buildings at the Seaport, New Amsterdam Market will gather for the third time on Sunday, June 29th 2008 from 11am to 4pm at the South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan. Open to the public at no charge ($5 suggested donation) the market will take place in the plaza fronting the New Market Building, on the East River between Beekman Street and Peck Slip.
CHEFS ARE WELCOME TO ARRIVE BEGINNING AT 10:15am. Many of the vendors do not typically attend NYC Greenmarkets and will welcome the opportunity to meet chefs.
This one day event will be twice the size of the second New Amsterdam Market (held at the Seaport on December 16th, 2007) which drew 5,000 enthusiastic supporters despite the day's severe snowstorm.
"With its four century legacy as a market district, the Seaport and its empty public market halls offer New Yorkers an unprecedented opportunity to anchor a newly emerging food system" says Robert LaValva, who organized the first New Amsterdam Market in October 2005 and directs the New Amsterdam Public Market Association. "By retaining these buildings as genuine public markets dedicated to a new mission, the City of New York will encourage existing and future businesses to create innovative approaches for procuring, distributing, processing, and selling regional and sustainably produced food. As a civic institution, New Amsterdam Market will join the city's thriving Greenmarket system to place the city at the forefront of the evolving regional and sustainable food movement, offering alternatives to industrial food production, and restoring the original vision for the Seaport to be a public, cultural destination for all New Yorkers."
New Amsterdam Market on June 29th will feature over 50 vendors. For a full list and further details, visit:
www.newamsterdammarket.org
