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Tag: street vendors

Harlem’s Street Vendors

January 5, 2011 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

On Saturday evenings, as crowds thronged Seventh Avenue in search of entertainment, many residents of Harlem headed to Eighth and…

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Posted in: Maps, Photographs, Places Filed under: 1920s, 1930s, black business, Eighth Avenue, Fifth Avenue, Harlem, Lenox Avenue, peanut sellers, Pig Foot Mary, street markets, street vendors, vegetable sellers, white business

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