This enormous shopping center (originally known as the Gateway Center), chock-full of big-box retailers, stands on the former sites of the Bronx Terminal Market (a wholesale food market where Fiorello La Guardia announced the city's ban on baby artichokes* in 1935) and the Bronx House of Detention (whose salvaged architectural ornaments, including the pictured eagle, now adorn the exterior of the shopping center).
* Check out this hilarious NY Times editorial addressing the artichoke ban's impingement on civil liberties.
Day 128
Bronx Terminal Market shopping center
May 6th, 2012
I’m glad these ornaments were saved and used for the new shopping center.