13th Avenue Sukkos Vendors Asked to Wait in Erecting Display Tables

Boro Park’s 13th Avenue is one of the world’s most prominent dalet minim markets—having replaced the Lower East Side as New York’s “shuk arbah minim.” For blocks on end, down 13th Avenue, one can see the tables of esrogim, almost as soon as Rosh Hashanah is out. 

Vendors vie for the best spot which will attract the most customers, and the competition for space is fierce. Which led to some vendors putting out tables as early as early Elul, when most of Boro Park is still in the Catskills! 

Which led to Community Board 12 announcing in a tweet that the New York City Sanitation Department will remove any table put out prior to September 12 leaving 13th Ave clean for shoppers to get to their way during the busy pre-High Holidays season. 

This corresponds to Sunday, 6 Tishrei—when the Sukkos shopping season will begin in earnest, when New York City will accommodate the hectic hawking of the dalet minim at the onset of the Yom Tov.