Pioneer of Saugerties, NYC farm markets hailed

... in one of the city's darkest corners, during its darkest times, on an $800 grubstake. Benepe cofounded, in 1976, New York's Union Square Greenmarket. Union Square was then a needle park; Benepe remembers drug dealers used to warn the market's few ...

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