The Market in Union Square

Live flowers for sale are a sign of  early Spring in busy Union Square, where the vendors offer vegetables, fruits,

arts and craftworks  over a great area--

just how many acres I don't know, but it's big.

One of Manhattan's most successful and largest greenmarkets, a warm day brings out hordes of shoppers who have a yen for anything locally grown and particularly organic food..

Remember all the changes this Square has been through: from site of discount department stores  and left-wing rallies to drug dealing center to sterile strictly patrolled open space...

All the streets around the square are packed with shoppers and tourists too. Only the frenetic subway station ( where three lines meet) has never improved that much, just gone through some half-hearted renovations...the Lexington Avenue ( what we used to call the IRT) line in particular is a relic of New York's Public Transit history.