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Robert Lavalva

  1. Comebacks
    New Amsterdam Market Will Return Next YearIt’s just not heading back to its old Fulton Fish Market site.
    By Hugh Merwin
  2. Markets and Malls
    New Amsterdam Market’s Board May Try to Resume OperationsThey’re “exploring ways that that can be done.”
    By Hugh Merwin
  3. Markets and Malls
    New Amsterdam Market Is Finished on South StreetRobert LaValva says City Councilmember Margaret Chin “betrayed the community.”
    By Hugh Merwin
  4. Malls and Markets
    Seaport Working Group Formed to Address Fulton Fish Market Site’s FutureHoward Hughes Corp. plans to build a 50-story tower on the waterfront.
    By Hugh Merwin
  5. Market Watch
    Sunday’s New Amsterdam Market Includes Real Dayboat Scallops, RootThey’ll have samples of those scallops, too.
    By Hugh Merwin
  6. Malls and Markets
    Howard Hughes Corp Presenting Plans for Fulton Fish Building Demolition TonightA piece of New York City history will vanish if the company gains approval.
    By Hugh Merwin
  7. Closings
    Judge Rules Pier 17 Mall’s Last Remaining Restaurant Must LeaveHere’s one last look.
    By Hugh Merwin
  8. The Eels
    Legendary Delaware River Fisherman’s Smoked Eels Coming to NYC ThisRay Turner’s weir-caught eels are typically only available at his off-the-grid shop in upstate New York.
    By Hugh Merwin
  9. Market Watch
    New Amsterdam Market Returns Next MonthFishmongers > rumormongers.
    By Hugh Merwin
  10. Markets and Malls
    City Council Approves Food Market-Heavy Pier 17 Redevelopment PlanTwo public food markets must be established on site in the Seaport.
    By Hugh Merwin
  11. New Amsterdam Market
    City Council Meeting Draws More Than 100 New Amsterdam Market SupportersThey were “packed like sardines.”
    By Hugh Merwin
  12. New Amsterdam Market
    Can New Amsterdam Market Revitalize the Post-Sandy Seaport?Robert LaValva will discuss plans at a City Council meeting tomorrow.
    By Hugh Merwin
  13. Market Watch
    New Amsterdam Market Will Live to See 2010The Seaport specialty market will end its 2009 run on Sunday.
    By Hugh Merwin
  14. NewsFeed
    Will the Seaport or Hudson Yards Get the Market? New Amsterdam Public, the locavores trying to build a year-round indoor market at South Street Seaport, last night issued a strongly worded statement to the city while cold-shouldering uptown suitors for a new food market. At a fund-raiser catered by Essex Street purveyor Saxelby Cheesemongers, New Amsterdam founder Robert LaValva insisted that the city owed the public a food hall in two old Fulton Fish Market buildings. “This place has markets in its blood,” LaValva told us, while supporters sipped wine and nibbled. The city’s reaction has been tepid, and one of the megadevelopers vying to build Hudson Yards recently approached New Amsterdam about a bid there.
  15. NewsFeed
    Landmark Maritime Building Hauls in Downtown Gourmet MarketplaceThe city’s seafaring future smells like tapenade and baguettes, now that a grand second-floor space at the Governors Island ferry terminal belongs to the Poulakakos family, the clan behind both H Bayard’s and the dainty downtown bakery Financier. According to a press release from the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the Dermot Companies will develop the Battery Maritime Building at South Ferry into a boutique hotel.