The Bronx Terminal Market at 149th Street and the Harlem River was first conceived in 1917 as a receiving point for the city’s fruits and vegetables. When it was built in the 1920’s a bank was added and a hotel was included on the second floor for the farmers.
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Well known in Mott Haven as “The Prow Building”, the Art Moderne lettering was added in 1935 after Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia took office and expanded the market to provide a home for the city's numerous pushcart vendors.
The South Bronx demographic changed with the influx of Caribbean island immigrants and the market eventually grew to become the nation’s largest wholesale market for raw sugar cane and other Hispanic foods, with over 100 distinct vendors.
But in 2006 construction began on the GateWay Center requiring the demolition of every historic building on the 17 acre market site with the single exception of the Prow.
That half billion dollar shopping center was completed and opened in 2009, displacing fruits and vegetables forevermore to the Hunt’s Point Market.
I shop at the Gateway Center. I’ll bet you do, too.
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