Union Square Green Market

I always get Cran-Apple Cider from here.

banana bread.

Who needs vegetables when there is banana bread to be bought?

In Autumn, stop by for a ginger cookie and hot cider.

(Then go buy lots of delicious root veggies!)

Even though I live in the upper part of Washington Heights, I find I come here at least twice a week. Quite honestly, after several years of suburban supermarket produce, I’d forgotten what real fruit and vegetables are like—grown for their taste, not for long-haul transit and shelf life.

Just in the past month, I have eaten currants (red and black both), heirloom tomatoes, sugar plums—and I’ve only barely touched the surface of what’s available there.

The Greenmarket is there on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 8am to 6pm.