Weekly Newsletter (October 13 - October 19)
Weekly Newsletter
October 13 - October 19
It’s feeling more like Fall everyday in the city. October is a month of beautiful weather, great scents, and fun activities.
Since our neighborhood is always offbeat and never boring, forget about pumpkins and apples because this week is all about pickles in the Lower East Side.
“It all started back in the 1930s, when Essex Street in Lower Manhattan was a prime place for peddle-cart pushers hawking Jewish and Italian street foods to hungry shoppers. Isidor “Izzy” Guss, a turn-of-the-century émigré from Russia, sold pickles from one such pushcart, and in 1920 opened a brick-and-mortar shop on Hester Street. His store was hardly one-of-a-kind: at the height of Essex Street’s pickle phase (which earned it the unofficial moniker “Pickle Alley”) there were at least 80 other pickle vendors in business” (Talia Ralph, Food 52).
From this bit of rich LES history, the annual Pickle Day was born. This Sunday, October 19th, on Orchard Street at Delancey, there will be over 20 picklers, local vedors, and live DJ. “It’s kindof a big dill”