The Final Mile: Le District

Photo courtesy of ICRAVE

Le District, a 30,000-sqft food hall that celebrates the best of French fare, was specifically designed to extend Manhattan’s street life indoors, drawing on the city’s vitality to re-position the iconic Brookfield Place complex in the resurgent neighborhood surrounding the World Trade Center site. Join ICRAVE founder and CEO Lionel Ohayon and HPH Hospitality owner Peter Poulakakos to learn about how the design, lighting, and management of the market have merged a series of overlapping culinary-specific stations, cafes, gardens, bars, and restaurants to create an immersive dining and shopping environment that responds to the growing interest in aspirational eating.

The Final Mile: Food Systems of New York is a year-long series of public programs, organized by Open House New York as part of its ongoing Urban Systems Series. The Final Mile is intended to shed light on New York City’s dynamic and multi-layered food economy while introducing and exploring approaches to render this invisible system more tangible.

The Final Mile: Food Systems of New York is made possible with generous support from the Reba Judith Sandler Foundation.