These days, the street fair has grown into a large corporate event, with most tables owned by outside merchants.
These were typically owned by well-to-do merchants and traders.
Belqas is home to ancient palaces and villas which were once owned by princes and merchants.
Inside, there are a number of narrow aisles containing stalls owned or rented by individual merchants.
But following that move, a group of angry vendors called for a boycott of stores on 125th Street owned by white and Asian merchants.
Foremost among them has been displaced vendors' continued picketing of stores on 125th Street, urging shoppers to boycott businesses not owned by black merchants.
African slaves worked on plantations owned by merchants of English and Scottish descent.
The entire river basin was then owned by merchants Stroganov.
Shares of the company were owned by wealthy merchants and aristocrats.
The houses on either side of the road were owned by rich merchants or guilds, but the right-of-way was less than two paces wide.