☞ READ: Bakeries Targeted for La Marqueta

The New York Times reports that the city is trying to encourage bakeries and other food businesses under the city-owned commercial space along the elevated train tracks of Park Avenue in East Harlem. In the mid-20th century, La Marqueta thrived underneath those tracks as the ethnic food market for El Barrio, but it is a shell of its former existence today. The above photo shows the farm murals along the warehouse wall sections closer to East 116th Street. If the city has its way with providing discounted, kitchen-based, commercial spaces to local business, pastries, cakes and baked goods might be the next paintings to line the walls of this part of Spanish Harlem. Read more in yesterday's NY Times: LINK. For more on La Marqueta, take a look at the previous post: LINK.