At the Ethnic Market highlights international specialty foods and ingredients you're very unlikely to find at your local Gristedes. The neighborhood surrounding the Elmhurst Avenue subway stop has been home to several excellent Thai eateries for years and new ones have been popping up lately. One worth mentioning is Sugar Club, a tiny Thai grocery/video store. If you have a hankering for curry pastes, palm juice or those scary looking little bottles of Thai Red......

Employees at FreshDirect’s Plant Operations warehouse voted overwhelmingly against unionization over the weekend. Given options of joining either the United Food & Commercial Workers, the Teamsters, or no union at all, 80 percent of the employees voted “no union.” The vote comes in the midst of an ongoing labor crisis at the warehouse; over one hundred undocumented workers were forced out earlier this month as FreshDirect announced an imminent inspection by Immigration and Customs Enforcement......

Approximately 85 undocumented workers are being fired from the high-end grocery delivery company Fresh Direct on the on the eve of the holiday season because their status as U.S. residents is disputed. Dozens of workers filed out of the company's Queens warehouse. Fresh Direct blamed a federal probe for the axing of almost a hundred workers. According to the Daily News, "management insisted it carried out the purge under pressure from federal authorities to crack......