Uhh, the whole stage / central open area and the entire 2nd floor dining area?

Hahah the bread pudding at Healthy Choice was the best! RIP.

You're so weird. There used to be over 80 vendors, live music, and all the things that I listed. I go there today, there are 30 vendors and none of my old favorites (except for faidleys). There's no live music. There's nowhere to sit and hang out. The vibe is totally different and there's a bunch of high end prepared foods. However, I'm the one that is incorrect because I didn't look at a website with a thumbnail and a promise that some high-end butcher is allegedly coming at some point in the future. I was disappointed. You can't show me some thumbnail on some website and make an argument that I should be satisfied.

There were multiple areas of standing tables around the old market, specially in the middle “arcade”/plaza area where they would have bands play on Friday and Saturday. There was also a large sitting area upstairs that overlooked the arcade area where you could eat, converse, and still hear the music.

The problem with the new market to me is that it’s now another “Food Hall” and no longer a true Lexington Market.

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Let’s not pretend that the song they did with Method Man wasn’t dope as hell

It's been fine lately. I do the Camden to Union Station commute three times a week. I wish we had later train options and more than once an hour, but honestly, it's been more reliable the last few months than it has been in a while (been taking the Marc since Fall 2020). Best positive it that it's walking distance from home and if I miss the last Camden line I can still use my monthly pass on the Penn line but will either have to take a cab or ask my partner to pick me up.

Where was this “communal space” in the old market because I’ve been going to the market since I was little and no such space existed. This is an improvement in that regard. Mt Vernon marketplace, R house and Whitehall never existed until they were created as such… food halls.

I am going to go there soon and write about my experience there. I was there a few months ago and it said that various vendors were coming at that time.

Healthy Choice was once at Lexington Market but they ended up closing up. Ironically enough, there food was anything but healthy but it was delicious and inexpensive. Like a full container of food that was enough for at least two meals was about $10.00.

There were several vendors that had fried chicken. I will agree that that was over kill. But I loved the places that had the turkey wings and turkey legs as well.

It's not just about having food there it's having it available at a price point that is affordable to someone that's been going to Lexington Market for years.

That's what I think people are missing in this subreddit and it's really annoying to see how people are instead of being empathetic that others simply don't have the economic resources that they do. You may not want to eat certain foods, but what about folks that do?

Oh no! That's a really strange coincidence. Perhaps it was the owner of the Subaru you tried to get into and he was similarly confused.

I went in really wanting to like it, but I left feeling completely nonplussed. It felt contrived and over-programmed and underwhelming. It lacks any kind of community feel that extends beyond tourist kitsch. I have a hard time seeing it as anything more than a fancy food court for nearby office workers, and a second-string tourist trap. Totally willing to have my mind changed, but not optimistic at this point.

My blunder was in Oakenshawe, in the afternoon. So I can't provide any reassurance as to what you saw 😬

This is what people wanted, and this is what we have. I was there a few months ago and I absolutely was NOT impressed at all.

Very little in terms of communal space as compared to the old building and where are the breakfast places that had such inexpensive food? There was an entire market in the old building, plenty of food that was inexpensive in general.

But no. People don't care about that when they have plenty of money. So it's basically like, if you aren't loaded like us then you absolutely do not matter and that's putting it quite nicely.

You have R House, Mr Vernon market place and even though I absolutely love it White Hall market. Cross St Market and Broadway Market have been completely bastardized as well. Why isn't that enough?

I jumped into the passenger seat of someone’s red grand am when my sister was supposed to be picking me up in hers. I sat down and looked over before very quickly apologizing and running off

And this is something to be proud of? You're drinking the Nickelback of beer and listening to the Nickelback of raprock.

For shame, sir.

Too many Subarus across the board. I already have the exact same red Forester as one of the other parents at my kid's daycare. Our kids have both confused our cars.

We really, really need a big ole blizzard soon! It’s been way too long! ❄️

Ah cool makes sense, I couldn't tell if Royal Deli had an actual deli counter or was just a grab and go sandwich place.

> No bands

I don’t even understand this. It’s a list of vendors.

There is an actual deli, Royal Deli, even. Also Blue Island Malaysian is there, and they have been at the market for decades. It is probably what OP was thinking of when they said "chinese." they don't seem very observant.

Does rain make a big difference in dissolving this pile away?

https://lexingtonmarket.com/merchants

>They literally DONT have the things in my list.

> no fresh veggies / fish, meat and poultry.

Veggies- Garden Produce

Fish- Cho's Sea Garden and Faidley's Seafood

Meat and Poultry- Buffalo Bill's II and Brookdale Farms Poultry

Blacksmiths is southern cooking, not quite soul food but probably close, and I'll bet Buffalo Bill's II or Trinacria has a deli counter. The only things missing from your list are Thai and Chinese but we got Nepali Fusion, West African and Jamaican.

At this point you're just bitching to bitch.

Black Camry, I feel like there are three on my block

>no fresh veggies / fish, meat and poultry

Bro can you read? There are literally two fresh seafood merchants (Faidley's, Cho's Sea Garden), two butchers (Buffalo Bill's II, Brookdale Farms Poultry) and a place called Garden Produce that sells fruit and vegetables. I feel like I am going crazy, or else you are a troll.

Yes. This has always been the case. Even prior to 1964, HBCUs admitted white students, but most didn't want to attend (still don't; we don't bite, promise). HBCUs routinely admitted non-white students who weren't black prior to 1964, too.

HBCUs started because blacks were not allowed to attend white schools, not the other way around. If you were black and were among the few who were admitted to white schools, you got treated like shit.

Typically, if you were black and applied to most non-HBUCs prior to 1964, you were generally rejected for being black.

Without HBCUs, the black middle class wouldn't have even existed.