Schenectady Stockade’s Arthur’s Market, gathering place for decades, to reopen March 4 | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY – The lights will soon be on again at Arthur’s Market, which has been the Stockade’s gathering place on and off for decades.
The historic cafe and market is slated to reopen on March 4, after more than a year of restoration work.
“It’s such an old building and I knew it was in pretty poor condition but everything did take longer than I had initially estimated,” said owner Haley Whalen.
She purchased the building at 35 North Ferry Street at the end of 2018 and began restoration work the following year. The building dates back to the late 1700s and according to previous Gazette articles has housed stores in various forms since then. Perhaps the most notable iteration in recent memory began in 1952 by Arthur Polachek, who sold groceries and fostered a sense of community in the neighborhood.