Auction of Vegetables The auction of heirloom vegetables last year at Sotheby's, 1334 York Avenue (72nd Street), will be repeated this year on Sept. 27.
Almost 20,000 vehicles pass through the market's gates each day, part of a supply line that connects an estimated 60,000 people whose livelihoods depend on the seamless flow of fish and vegetables from auction room to restaurant kitchen and supermarket shelf.
It lies in an irrigated-farming area devoted to sugar beets and vegetables; cattle auctions are important.
Starting at 7 p.m. there will be a cocktail reception, then a dinner and a live auction of the vegetables and other food and wine items.
Dan Allam, 22, listed five of the unloved vegetables with the condition "used" on the auction website, yet with an hour to go they had received a high bid of £29.
Various youth subtribes intermittently bubble to the surface -- see the recent rise of "vegetable males" (Chinese metrosexuals) and "Taobao maniacs" (aficionados of the auction website Taobao).
On Nov. 10 Christie's will be auctioning "Big Campbell's Soup Can With Can Opener (Vegetable)," a 1962 painting of the artist's signature image, this one with a can opener in the top corner.
She built a successful career as a psychoanalyst, but never skipped one of her children's school plays, a chance to buy vegetables in Chinatown, her favorite operas at the Met, or a Channel 13 art auction.
The auction will be held after a silent auction and cocktail reception with hors d'oeuvres made from heirloom vegetables.
