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BlackBook - Tag: New York — Tue Mar 02 12:00:00 UTC 2010 By Ethan Wolff March 01, 2010 ? Pies-n-Thighs (Williamsburg) - Long-awaited return of comfort food legend. ? Van Leeuwen (Greenpoint) - Artisan ice cream shop about to change the way you experience McCarren Park.

Tucked into the parking lot of the New Fulton Fish Market in Hunts Point is the city’s only wholesale farmers market — and now it’s getting a boost from a $296,000 grant to the Council on the Environment of New York City, which runs farmers markets in all five boroughs. The council will manage the market, which moved this year from its long-time location near Yankee Stadium, as its latest Greenmarket. All 50 others are retail markets.

Nowadays, you can't walk down one block in Harlem that hasn't in someway been affected by the current market turmoil. Such is true for St. Nicholas Avenue, which is set to lose one of its' gems in the Green Park Cafe.