The City is planning to relocate the popular Sunday Pigeon Park Street Market to 501 Powell Street (kitty corner to Oppenheimer Park) in mid-October. According to Mary Clare Zak, the City’s managing director of Social Policy, the city had to close the Pigeon Park location because of security and…
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