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Re:Rungis: The Market and the City – A day at Europe's large... by fuzztester on Monday September 22, 2025 @10:52PM (#45342292)
paywall after a few enticer paras.
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Re:Rungis: The Market and the City – A day at Europe's large... by rmason on Monday September 22, 2025 @11:00PM (#45342353)
In Detroit there's the Eastern Market, it's over 180 years old. I remember going there as a boy with my dad and it was like I'd imagine the United Nations is like with people speaking dozens of different languages. A very wide range of food, crafts and beverages. The aisles were packed and you could hardly make your way. Lots of small different restaurants. .

https://visitdetroit.com/inside-the-d/detroits-eastern-marke...

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Re:Rungis: The Market and the City – A day at Europe's large... by csunoser on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @02:21AM (#45343427)
Sadly, it seems like it is no longer about wholesale. Nothing wrong with that, but a working wholesales market like Rungis and Toyosu Market has a different kind of functional charm to it.
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Re:Rungis: The Market and the City – A day at Europe's large... by Animats on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @02:13AM (#45343356)
Rungis is the successor to Les Halles, which was in Paris proper.[1] Like most of the big urban food markets worldwide, the serious wholesale business was moved out to somewhere that semitrailers could get in and park. The London and New York markets have been previously mentioned on HN.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Halles

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Re:Rungis: The Market and the City – A day at Europe's large... by bobthepanda on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @02:42AM (#45343562)
Les Halles is also now the centerpiece of the RER, the express network built to supplement the inner city metro with frequent rail to the suburbs. RER A is now the busiest passenger railway in the West with over one million passengers a day.
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Re:Rungis: The Market and the City – A day at Europe's large... by pjerem on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @11:19AM (#45348311)
Also the biggest (in size) underground station of the world.
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Re:Rungis: The Market and the City – A day at Europe's large... by decimalenough on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @05:34AM (#45344761)
The Sydney Fish Market is one of the few remaining exceptions. Even more amazingly, it's set to stay that way, as a shiny new tourist-friendly but, critically, still wholesale-geared fish market is about to open later this year right next to the old one, still in the inner city in Pyrmont.

https://www.sydneyfishmarket.com.au/Corporate/The-New-Sydney...

Japan's Tsukiji was also a famous inner city market, only about a kilometer away from the Ginza, but it has been moved into the semitrailer-friendly boonies of Toyosu.

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Re:Rungis: The Market and the City – A day at Europe's large... by keiferski on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @06:27AM (#45345124)
My favorite piece of trivia about this market is the metro station Poissonnière is named as such, because it was along the road fishmongers brought fish to the market from the coast.

It’s not anywhere near a body of water, so if you don’t know the history, it seems rather curious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poissonni%C3%A8re_station

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