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The Union Square Farmers market in New York City is a perfect source for inexpensive and hearty regionally grown plants, herbs, and flowers. Get there first thing in the morning and you’ll quickly discover there’s too- much -to -choose- from. Stroll among the market stalls and weave between the Blew Family’s jumbo packets of rosemary , and the Migliorelli Farms sugar snap peas. Bring along your kitchen scraps and drop it off at the Lower East Side Ecology Center’s stand, and while you’re at it pick up a bag of ‘black gold’ (worm casting compost) for only 50 cents a pound. Then decide on home baked garlic & duck fat Ciabatta along with a too- beautiful- to -pass -up bouquet of freshly cut snapdragons. Bordered by 17th Street, Union Square West, 14th Street and Union Square East Directions: 4, 5, 6; N, R; L at Union Sq
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CREST a neighborhood HARDWARE store in Williamsburg Brooklyn on Metropolitan & Union Ave. is unique in a sea of big-box chain stores. As soon as you walk in you hear TOP TEN AM-radio playing
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