This is really shaping up to be a great event…COME!

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Michael Mroziak • Thu, Aug 18, 2011: Buffalo’s Common Council President says there’s one person who is to blame for the Broadway Market’s continued operation without a dedicated full-time director. That person, says David Franczyk, is Mayor Byron Brown.

“We’ve given him every opportunity to move forward on the Broadway Market and he’s doing absolutely nothing, dragging his feet,” said Franczyk in a telephone interview with the Am-Pol Eagle.

Last week, the Am-Pol Eagle published a story featuring comments from vendors concerned about the continued lack of an executive director. Franczyk was contacted for an interview but after several traded phone messages, both sides were finally able to correspond but not until after last week’s press deadline.

“I think that’s the biggest problem right now because the Common Council has no authority to pick an executive director. For some reason, he doesn’t think it’s a priority. Everything else to him is a priority,” said Franczyk. “Even when we got the million dollars two years ago for the Market, I got it out of him kicking and screaming. He wanted to trade it for another project in the Masten District which I was going to support anyway.”

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*Brian Meyer – Buffalo New) What’s a surefire sign that business is booming at the Broadway Market this Easter season?

When the pierogi people sell out of their signature food at 10:30 a.m. on Good Friday.

“What? No pierogies?” one man asked incredulously.

Julie Czochara of Keeping Traditions Pierogi smiled politely.

“I’m sorry,” she said. “We sold out a few hours ago.”

Don’t blame poor planning. Czochara and her husband, Greg, prepared about three times as many of their doughy delicacies as last year. They were sure they were set for the onslaught. They planned on making more pierogi to cater to Saturday shoppers. In the past couple weeks, they estimate they’ve sold about 24,000 pierogi.

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Everyone knows that the Broadway Market is synonymous with the Easter Season here in Western New York. This year, the Market is calling on individuals and groups to volunteer and help this Buffalo treasure ready for its busiest time of the year.

The Broadway Market will host a cleanup Saturday April 2nd, 2011 from 9am to 12pm. Volunteers will help spruce up the building in preparation for Easter.

The Market is also looking for volunteers to assist during the week leading up to Easter, April 17th through April 23rd, to help with a variety of functions assisting management.

Both are unique opportunities for Western New Yorkers to be part of one of Buffalo’s most endearing springtime traditions. The Broadway Market’s long term goals are to build a volunteer base for future events and greater engage the Western New York community in becoming involved with the market.

Sign up information can be found at the Broadway Market’s website, www.BroadwayMarket.org or by calling 716.218.0232.
Since 1888, the Broadway Market has been known for unique products and personal service, with meat stands, poultry stands, produce counters, bakeries, delis, candy stands and restaurants. Family-owned businesses, passed from generation to generation, have created some of Buffalo’s best loved foods.

The Market is opened year round, Monday – Saturday, 8 AM – 5 PM, and is located on Broadway between Gibson and Lombard Streets in Buffalo’s Historic Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood.

(By Christina M. Abt) This is the tenth in a series of articles about the Broadway Market. This week, a man whose family has enjoyed a long running relationship with the market, opening a stand there in 1947, becoming directly involved in reviving the market in the late 1960s, growing to be the 2nd highest-grossing vendor during the 1990s and closing their stand in 2002, some 55 years after they began.

At the age of 12 Mark Redlinski began working at his family’s meat market, assuming the all- important job of picking up rubber bands from the floor. At that time Redlinski’s Meats was located at the back of the Broadway Market, where it spread across stalls 38, 39 and 40. Mark’s grandfather, Paul, started the family market stand in 1947 as a means of stabilizing the family’s business. Little could he imagine that at the turn of the century, his grandson would be closing the Redlinski’s market stand as a means of again stabilizing the family’s business.

Read full story at AM-POL Eagle—>

Read rest of the series:

• The Broadway Market at a Crossroads Part IX
• The Broadway Market at a Crossroads Part VIII
• The Broadway Market at a Crossroads Part VII
• The Broadway Market at a Crossroads Part VI
• The Broadway Market at a Crossroads Part V
• The Broadway Market at a Crossroads Part IV
• The Broadway Market at a Crossroads Part III
• The Broadway Market at a Crossroads Part II
• Part I: Kerr calls for reason at the Broadway Market

Everyone knows that the Broadway Market is synonymous with the Easter Season here in Western New York. This year, the Market is calling on individuals and groups to volunteer and help this Buffalo treasure ready for its busiest time of the year.

The Broadway Market will host a cleanup and decorating day on Saturday March 12th, 2011 from 9am to 1pm. Volunteers will help spruce up and decorate the building in preparation for Easter.

The Market is also looking for volunteers to assist during the week leading up to Easter, April 17th through April 23rd, to help with a variety of functions assisting management.

Both are unique opportunities for Western New Yorkers to be part of one of Buffalo’s most endearing springtime traditions. The Broadway Market’s long term goals are to build a volunteer base for future events and greater engage the Western New York community in becoming involved with the market.

Sign up information can be found at the Broadway Market’s website, www.BroadwayMarket.org or by calling 716.218.0232.

Since 1888, the Broadway Market has been known for unique products and personal service, with meat stands, poultry stands, produce counters, bakeries, delis, candy stands and restaurants. Family-owned businesses, passed from generation to generation, have created some of Buffalo’s best loved foods.

The Market is opened year round, Monday – Saturday, 8 AM – 5 PM, and is located on Broadway between Gibson and Lombard Streets in Buffalo’s Historic Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood.

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This is the end result of you folks submitting four words on the Broadway Market.

Thank for playing along…maybe we will do this again.

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Tonight I read something over on Buffalo Rising about a large scale local public food venture on the outer harbor…I have recently read about other project ideas for local food initiatives around Buffalo.

All the concepts interesting except for one thing…none considering the Broadway Market for use.

Why is that?

We have this 100,000+ square foot market over here in B-F that is screaming for ideas to make it a success beyond the Easter season.  Why is it left out of the mix?

The picture above is from Saturday morning…a prime shopping day and time…what is missing is people.

Other cities have old public markets in neighborhoods like B-F that flourish.

What needs to be done to get the community and local entrepreneurs to help engerize and support it?  Why don’t we have the local idea people clamoring to help resuscitate it?

I just don’t get it…is it because it’s on the East Side?  Is it doomed…dying a slow death while on Easter life support.

The Broadway Market should be the hub of everything we love about Buffalo food and more.

It kills me to walk in on any given day and see it dying.

Instead of looking to create Buffalo food experiences elsewhere, we need more attention and love placed on this treasure that’s been around since 1888 before it becomes one those numerous places we reminisce about after it is gone.