STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The staff from NYC Grow will be out and about today in St. George for the annual Earth Day celebration and arts festival in Tompkinsville Park. And their role is to point customers in the neighborhood to the NYC Grow Web site and Facebook page for news on exactly where the St. George Greenmarket will be operating on Saturday, May 2. That is the day it is set to open.
"Thanks for your patience. We have not received confirmation for our St. George market location and are told that we will receive final word on Tuesday," wrote spokeswoman Liz Carollo in an email late Friday.
"We are currently pursuing two locations in close proximity to our old location and will have multiple staff out at St. George Day asking people to visit our St. George Greenmarket webpage and Facebook page for updates," she noted.
With a high-rise going up on the old site of the Saturday market, discussion has been in motion on where a new location could be. Prospective sites have included the North Shore Esplanade and a parking lot of the new court house in St. George.
And a passionate debate among Staten Islanders ensued on SILIVE.com recently on a home in Tompkinsville Park. That will not be likely, say officials.
Staten Island's St. George Greenmarket is the only Greenmarket in the City that does not yet have a committed location for its NYC Grow-run farmers market. There is another market in the borough which operates at The Staten Island Mall each Saturday. That will open in June.