TankerTalks: Robert LaValva

The Mary A. Whalen Tanker, Pier 11, enter at Pioneer and Conover Sts, Red Hook, Brooklyn. Travel: F, G to Smith–9th Sts, then take the B61 to Van Brunt St. Hear about the history and future of the New York waterfront markets from Robert LaValva, the founder of the New Amsterdam Market, whose ever-changing roster of specialty purveyors (like Fleisher's Grass-Fed and Organic Meats and Saxelby Cheesemongers) gathers once a month on cobbled South Street.