On Sundays, Chase Road outside the Scarsdale Post Office and part of Spencer Place turn into a farmers market from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The market opened for the 2026 season on May 3. At that point the village center had gone a year and a half without a grocery store. DeCicco Family Markets closed its 31-year-old store at 58 East Parkway in November 2024, as the Bronxville Beacon reported.
The season ends November 22. The same few blocks now have a new Italian restaurant, a wine shop in a bigger space, a Pilates studio about to open, and a café on the way. The grocery replacement at 58 East Parkway was still under construction as of the latest report. For the rest of November, the market sits in the middle of a village center that is filling back in around it.
The Sundays that remain
The Village calendar lists four more market dates, and the Scarsdale Business Alliance has planned one more of its "Destination: Scarsdale" activations for the series.
| Date | On Chase Road | Also nearby |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday, November 1 | Farmers market plus the SBA's Public Safety Day | |
| Monday, November 2 | Core Burn Pilates lists its first classes at 100 Christie Place | |
| Sunday, November 8 | Farmers market | |
| Sunday, November 15 | Farmers market | |
| Sunday, November 22 | Final farmers market of the season |
The SBA's own page gives the series end date as November 23 in one place. Its event table, the Village calendar and the operator's newsletter all put the final market on Sunday, November 22. Weather can still cancel a Sunday. The Village marked September 27 as cancelled due to weather, so the calendar is worth a quick look on a gray morning.
Who gets a stall on Chase Road
The Village supplies the street and municipal support. Down to Earth Markets runs the market itself: day-to-day operations, choosing vendors, and community outreach. Its rules explain much of what ends up on the tables. Vendors must raise or make their products themselves, within about 150 miles of the market. Coffee, chocolate, tea and olive oil are the exceptions. They can come from farther away if the vendor has a direct link to the farm that supplies the main ingredient.
The Scarsdale market's directory on Marketspread lists 35 vendors. Down to Earth rotates the lineup every week, so a name on this list will not be there every Sunday. Some of the regulars, grouped by what they sell:
- Farms and orchards: Norwich Meadows Farm, Wing Ming Farm, Caradonna Farms, SOVA Farm, Orchard Hill, The Farm 1747, Ethan's Farm, Flowering Sun
- Bread, pasta and prepared food: Wave Hill Breads, La Trafila Pasta, EmpaBake Empanadas, SOUPERNATURAL, Naturallie Gluten Free, Arlotta Food Studio, taiim shack mobile
- Dairy, seafood and pantry: Maplebrook Farm, Sound Seafood, Doc Pickle, Agape Olive Oil, Rosina's Winery
- The coffee and chocolate exceptions: Cano Coffee Company, slowcocoa craft chocolate
- Makers: The Copper Faucet Soap Company, Cedar Grove Woodworks, Rob Wolf Glass, Casa Cherrywood Carvings
Down to Earth posts each week's lineup on its website and on Instagram at @scarsdalenyfarmersmarket. That is the place to check before walking over for a particular loaf or a particular fish.
58 East Parkway, still a work in progress
The empty grocery is the reason the market has mattered more to the village center this year. The company filling that space is DeCicco & Sons, a separate branch of the DeCicco family from the one that closed the old store. In February, The Journal News reported that the company's Scarsdale store would be called Piccolino, Italian for "little one," because it is a smaller store. It is the first time DeCicco & Sons has opened a store under a different name. At that point the opening was planned for summer.
Summer came and went. When Scarsdale10583 visited on August 12, the exterior windows were in and crews were working on the interior. No firm opening date had been announced. The planned stock covers some of what the market sells, including fresh produce, Italian baked goods and prepared foods. It also adds gourmet groceries, a large beer selection, and meats raised without antibiotics or added hormones. The build-out uses Pozzotive, a concrete made with recycled glass, along with reclaimed brick and wood. A system will also capture heat from the refrigeration and reuse it for hot water and heating in the store.
For the November Sundays, that leaves the farmers market as the regular source of farm produce on these blocks until Piccolino opens.
What opened on the surrounding blocks this fall
The other changes are close enough to fit into the same Sunday morning.
- Capretta, 57 Spencer Place. Z Hospitality Group took over the former Akai space and held its opening on Tuesday, September 22. Mayor Justin Arest, Deputy Mayor Dara Gruenberg and Trustee Tim Foley cut the ribbon. The group also runs Mediterraneo, Terra and Eastend in Greenwich and Aurora in Rye. A week later, Scarsdale10583 reported that "the restaurant has been an instant hit."
- Scarsdale Wine Merchants, East Parkway. The shop moved from Depot Place to a bigger store on East Parkway, a few doors from where Zachys used to be. Owner Kristie Petrullo Campbell plans to start weekend tastings.
- Core Burn Pilates, 100 Christie Place. At its September 22 meeting, the Village Board approved a 1,539-square-foot studio in the former Bank of America space. The studio's schedule lists classes starting Monday, November 2, the day after Public Safety Day. Its first round of pre-opening packages has sold out.
- Caffè Nero, East Parkway at Christie Place. As of the end of September it was listed as coming soon, with no opening date given.
Most of the new activity is clustered around Spencer Place, East Parkway and Christie Place, within a short walk of the market on Chase Road.
Sundays after November 22
When the stalls come down after the 22nd, a Sunday downtown will look different from last winter. Capretta will be open on Spencer Place, and Scarsdale Wine Merchants will be on East Parkway with tastings planned. A café is on the way at the Christie Place corner, and a Pilates studio will be running classes in an old bank. Just outside the village, Sprouts Farmers Market opened in September in Hartsdale, just south of the Scarsdale border. Scarsdale10583 covered it after the opening.
Piccolino is the change that will matter most to the village center. If it opens over the winter, next May's market will reopen with a grocery store a few steps away, which it did not have in 2026. Until then, the last market of the season is Sunday, November 22, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Spencer Place at Chase Road.
I've been following Scarsdale's village center as these storefronts fill back in, the same way I follow every town in my Scarsdale neighborhood guide. If you'd like to talk about how these new places change daily life in the village, or how a home near them might be presented, Kathleen Usherwood would be glad to hear from you. Let's Connect.
