Every Sunday, for three decades, the market has come to life here, in St. Lawrence Market: once in the north building, and nowadays under a tent. “I’m closing this Sunday, because I want to go out with a positive market for all my dealers,” Cook said in an interview this weekend with the Star. With the news of the market closure, she’d been trying to pass along her email and phone number to any regular shoppers she saw. Hussain Saffar started visiting the market as a collector of fine carpets and area rugs about 25 years ago. “I was hoping it would stay,” he said of the long-standing market, sitting beside his offerings Sunday morning.

Source: thestar May 30, 2022 13:08 UTC