Indiana Gazette from Indiana, Pennsylvania • 10

(Wit feaette Wednesday. December 2, 1992 Poge 1 1 Crackdown angers some in colorful Philly market OH tkader I Trader Horn Plaza Rt. 286 Indiana AMFM Inrmitroff flll-SPOftT S(LSAW I 10" Table Saw PHILADELPHIA (AP) It's crowded, cluttered and a little chaotic. Rocky runs through it when Sylvester Stallone needs some authentic South Philly footage, and candidates campaign there when they need an urban ethnic backdrop for the evening news. It's the Italian Market, an open-air bazaar where produce spills over tables that spill into the street, where men huddle around fires in steel drums, where trash bins are green, white and red like the Italian flag.

Bui it's that trash and smoke and controlled pandemonium that bothers City Hall. The cash-hungry city has been cracking down on unlicensed stands and code violations all over town, and the last few weeks It's been the Italian Market's turn. "Commercial anarchy," Licenses and Inspections commissioner Ben- nett Levin called it last week. "You need to bring some order out ofthatchaos'hesaid. "Chaos is not attractive, people don't want to deal with it." That just roasts their peppers down at the market.

Voices are 7, louder and gestures more vigorous selling clothes, knickknacks and household goods, and blacks run some stands But the Ninth Street storefronts reflect the heritage: Lorenzo's Pizza, Tony's Fruits and Produce, An-astasi Fresh Seafood, Claudio's cheese store, Cannuli's House of Poultry. Pheasants hang in the window of D'Angelo Brothers, butcher. "Everything's fresh," Jan Small, 38, who comes in regularly from suburban Penn Valley. "The men are great. It's atmosphere.

Everyone's friendly. If they know you and like you, you can eat for free. It's cheap and it's good." The produce stands are set up in the street against the curb, so that shoppers walk between a store's goods on one side and fruits and vegetables on the other. It can be a tight squeeze. On cold days, vendors warm their hands over kerosene heaters or open fires in drums, fueled by broken-up produce crates and boxes.

Some put a grate over the drum to grill lunch. Romantic? Maybe. "I'll tell you what other people tell me," said commissioner Levin. "It's so filthy there I would never buy anything there. If they would clean it up, they'd do a lot better." He likes Seattle's Pike Place Market "It's the same street vendors, Inside and outside, and it's spotless ly clean.

"I firmly believe the Italian Market could be a tremendous tourist attraction. You've got the vendors, the sidewalk restaurants, the flavor of the Old World," he said. "But number one, it has to produce the revenue. Number two, it has to comply with regulations. You need it clean and healthy and inviting." Inside the fragrant refuge of Gar-gano's Spice women scooped cinnamon into plastic bags and owner John Gargano, complained about the crackdown.

"It's a great tourist attraction right now," said Gargano, 46. "People take pictures by the trash cans, people hanging around the open fire. "We don't want to be like everyone else. Then we'd be like a mall. We're different.

We're unique." The city's first sweep three weeks ago cleaned out numerous illegal stands on Washington Avenue and frightened vendors on Ninth Street Last week, city councilman Joseph Vignoia was making the rounds, trying to reassure vendors that nothing will be confiscated, that if they have a curb license, tbey should be OK. "We're going to draft legislation to legalize what's been in existence for 100 years," Vignoia said. Two alarms allow "His and her" wake up Bright, easy to read .6" red LED. display Fastslow controls for quick lime and alarm sotting Wake to music or buzzer Powerful 13 amp motor Exclusive self -aligning, quickset rip fence Large die cast aluminum table 2-year warranty Choose from a wide selection ofArmitron Sport her Watches for him and I on our discount price! 111 Expand your employment U4oogf23rgfJrBj Real Wood l0SE8lim7lnef! Paneling variety to I Stereo Cassette I Bikes ikes 4-x'B'. cSi Walkaround I II ii 1 i i ISnfA Deluxe feathertight headphones Jnvest in yourself.

was Let IUP help you take the first step back Into the chis.srotim. than usual. "They're trying to change every-i thing around," said Anthony Micali, 50, as he stood behind his bins of iced-down fish and crabs. "They're trying to break up the market. We've been down here 100 years, and they're trying to hurt us.

It's wrong, really. "They're really aggravatin' us. Everybody likes it the way it is. The 3 customers say, 'Why change it? It's always been this Levin said is merely treating the market the same way it is treating the rest of town, where "at least 40 percent of the city's business activity is unlicensed." He said his department's collec-' lions are $1.5 million ahead of (1 million of that from the enforcement crackdown. With water and tax officials tagging along, he said, delinquent bills are getting paid and the tax base is widening.

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