Monticello Farmers’ Market Revival

To the editor:

Great news for the area that The Farmers’ Market on the east end of Monticello’s Broadway - now called Lou’s Produce - is reborn with the fiscal backing of local business leader Joe Rea.

The reopening of this landmark maintains a well-known retail outlet for nutritious locally sourced produce under the new ownership and management of Lenny Williams with his decades in the field, while also lightening the burden of food insecurity in our community. 

After shopping at The Farmers’ Market for more than 30 years, I think we should all be pleased at this development. I’ve also bought several cars from Rea Ford-Lincoln Inc. over the years and know and respect Joe. He invests well and keeps his word. It’s great to see an old-time business surviving.

Tom Rue
Forestburgh

Sullivan County Democrat, 7/15/2022

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By Tom Rue
Village Historian

Broadway is a small part of a highway that was the economic engine during Sullivan County's earliest years, stretching from Newburgh on the Hudson River all the way to the Upper Delaware at Cochecton. Called "Main Street" in its first century, it is a one-mile stretch of the Newburgh Cochecton Turnpike.

Answer: You're probably just about exactly right, as the description of the above photo shows (from p. 57 of "Monticello" [2010]) attests: 

"This springtime photo shows Broadway (Route 42) from above the corner Oakley (now Lakewood) Avenue. It may be more recent than the newest automobiles shown because production was curtailed during the war years. Mayor Luis DeHoyos opposed elimination of diagonal parking, but parallel parking on Broadway became mandatory in 1946 when the village sought the state's permission to install parking meters. On the right, in the Bogner Building, is the Sol Strand Barber Shop & Beauty Parlor (later David's Fast Photo); Gottesman's Gifts (now Crown Chicken); Bogner's Meat & Poultry; the Green Door Bar & Grill; and Keller Sign Co. Next is Luzker's Hosier; Trachtenberg's (now Chinatown Kitchen); Joe Hertz's shoe repair; taxi-cab company; and another barber. At the corner is St. Peter's Church (minus its steeple), then the Post Office. (Courtesy of Ralph Cutler.)

Republican Watchman, 6/20/1946

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