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Spurred By Organic Food Providers, Southeast Queens Grows A Night Market arrow Earnest Food, an organic produce provider, was one of 34 vendors at Sunday s night market at St. Albans Park. Elizabeth Kim / Gothamist In New York City, night markets are synonymous with Queens. In 2015, a former lawyer named John Wang founded the seasonal Queens Night Market in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, which has served more than one million people with affordable street food from 80 different countries. That market recently made a triumphant return to the borough for the first time since the pandemic began. But Wang has said that night markets are more than just about food they are a vehicle and gateway for culture. Now, a group is taking that loose definition and trying to make their own version in southeast Queens, in a neighborhood that represents the heart of the city s Black middle class.

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