Chapter 1 argued that that the justification for the municipal market system was to sustain the public good of citizens' access to food. This chapter focuses on the extent to which the corresponding market infrastructure succeeded in fulfilling this political mandate. The analysis therefore shifts the discussion from the realm of political economy to evaluating the public markets' performance on the ground. In evaluating the public market system, the chapter pursues supply side and spatial analyses. Did New Yorkers gain access to adequate quantities of food supplies? Were all neighborhoods well provisioned, or were some areas unfairly burdened by too taxing a distance? And did the model muster effective means to sustain food quality? At the center of the inquiry is the geographic mandate of the public market system, which determined its success in meeting socially agreed-upon and politically mediated provisioning standards.