the Broadway Market. . .

Eastertime is filled with wonderful sites, sounds, and most of all smells. Nowhere is that more true than at the Broadway Market, an Old World, European style marketplace that caters to all ethnic backgrounds. It has changed drastically over the years, and was at one time, a daily shopping place for the local eastside neighborhood and other areas of Buffalo, New York.

I'm of Polish ancestry, and all of the food items that we put into our baskets, to be blessed for the Easter breakfast (Swieconka), are available here.

During the weeks preceding Easter, the Broadway Market becomes alive again, a bustling place filled with holiday shoppers that long for those memories of when they were young, and for those that have been coming here for so many years, it's a part of who they are. For children that are brought to the Market by their parents or grandparents, it's a place that they can talk to the Easter Bunny,buy some chocolate candy,and soak up all of the beautiful, ethnic and cultural elements that will bring memories for them in years to come. For the rest of us, it takes us back to our childhood...remembering all those sites, sounds, and smells, that are tucked away in a happy place.