Abandoned pie window

At least, it looks like pie.

I'd passed by this boarded-up, painted-over window many times on my way to or from the Essex Street Market, one block south, before catching sight of the insignia in the slanting light of a street lamp. (I returned for these pictures by the fuller light of day.) The window — could it have been a counter-through? — is set into another market building that probably went into disuse no later than 1995, when food vendors were consolidated into the current facility. Can any Eating In Translation reader tell us more about this former merchant and its wares?

Abandoned pie window
Essex St. between Stanton and Rivington Sts., Manhattan