Mercado de las Pulgas

This guide to Mercado de las Pulgas in Buenos Aires traces the building's start as an English-style fruit and vegetable warehouse in 1930, with a rail line running through its basement. It follows how a 1988 order to clear street vendors off the sidewalks of Colegiales pushed them into this half-forgotten warehouse, and how the market survived closures, years shuttered, and a relocation before reopening at Alvarez Thomas and Dorrego. For eighteen years before that, it ran instead at the corner of Niceto Vega and Dorrego.