Bronx Terminal Market

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

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Interviews and dramatization of activities at Farmers Square and Merchants' Row at 6am. Interviews with inspectors, sellers, farmers, and peddlers about products, sales, regulation, and sleeping quarters. Later, the reporter visits the milk pasteurization building and a winery. At the winery, they pop a cork on a bottle of champagne very dramatically.

Detailed information about milk pasteurization (including prices and chemical elements) and wine making (specifically domestic champagne production and visiting the winery).

Concludes with stores closing and shoppers leaving.

Original card catalog: "N.D. Documentary"


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 68802
Municipal archives id: LT223

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