Haymarket
Open-air pushcart market of fruit, seafood and vegetables trading on the same downtown streets for generations.
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This guide to Haymarket in Boston follows halal-meat vendor Salim Marhamo and his neighbors on Blackstone Street through the summer of 2018, when a plywood-and-chain-link fence went up beside their pushcarts so a developer could prep ground for a new hotel. You'll hear how long the fence was supposed to stand, and from cheese seller Roy Fournier and pizza-shop owner Al Sciola what it cost them while they waited it out. The market's pushcarts trace back to 1820, and this is one chapter in a run of disruptions it has weathered on these same downtown streets.
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