Fairway Receives Extended Loading Zone Hours

By [Allen Houston] with additional reporting by [Shilpa Agrawal](http://nypress.com/?s=Shilpa+Agrawal) and [Hannah O"Grady](http://nypress.com/?s=Hannah+O%E2%80%99+Grady) The famed West Side market has jumped another hurdle in its move to East 86th Street, between Second and Third avenues. Fairway recently received extended loading zone hours from the Department of Transportation that will allow it to load and unload trucks between 5 a.m. and 10 p.m., seven days per week. The size of the loading zone is yet to be determined. The decision is the latest in a culmination that will bring the grocery emporium, led by father-son duo Howie and Dan Glickberg, to East Side residents. Previously, questions had been raised about the size of the loading zone and about clutter in the sidewalk in front of the store. Details are still being finalized on the size of the loading zone, but originally the DOT had allocated the market a loading zone of 100 feet. Fairway asked for another 50 feet, which would be shared with other Second Avenue businesses as well as ongoing Second Avenue Subway construction. At a June 2 meeting, Community Board 8 overwhelmingly voted to support Fairway in its solicitation for more loading space. Residents who live near the proposed location of the store voiced a mix of opinions about the early-hour loading and unloading. â??We don"t have good food places around here, said Beth Luttiger, who has lived on 86th Street for 30 years. â??The possibility of noise early in the morning doesn"t bother me. Mark Robertson, who lives next door to the proposed location, was skeptical about the early morning unloading and said that he didn"t believe Fairway delivery trucks should be allowed to unload before 9 a.m. â??They shouldn"t be unloading that early in the morning, he said. â??This is a neighborhood and people are sleeping then. Another passerby said that New York City is full of noise and a little more wouldn"t change anything. â??I hear so much damn noise all day long, this is nothing, she said.