Workers at the Hunts Point Produce Market on Saturday morning approved a new three-year contract that will net them a raise and get them back to work Sunday. Some 97% of workers voted in favor of the pact, ending strike that disrupted the Bronx-based hub — which touts supplying 60% of the region’s produce — […]
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Hunts Point Market Plows Through Pandemic, Feeding New Yorkers and Avoiding Firings
Phillip Grant didn’t anticipate that a deadly virus would shut down New York City when he started the job of general manager at the Hunts Point Produce Market 10 months ago. In March, when concern over COVID-19 compelled much of the tri-state area to close indefinitely, many doing business at the Bronx facility worried about […]
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Hunts Point Market Suppliers Reeling From Restaurant Falloff
Want to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for our daily morning newsletter. Struggling restaurants across the city are trying to make do with takeout and delivery business permitted as their only coronavirus-safe service — but their own source of nourishment is on life support. Food suppliers operating out of the Hunts […]
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Power Players Leave Hunts Point meat market lacking electric backup
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. New York City’s largest meat distribution center is operating without backup generators on a vulnerable peninsula in The Bronx — more than three years after the City Council approved $3.5 million for the emergency […]
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No Coastal Flooding Protections In Store for City’s Largest Food Hub
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Seven years after Superstorm Sandy, the de Blasio administration has no plans for coastal flooding defense measures to protect the city’s largest food market — a $3 billion hub that sits on a low-lying […]
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Private Trash Carters on Road to Missing Emissions Upgrade Deadline
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Scores of privately owned garbage trucks operating on city streets aren’t likely to make it to the finish line in time to meet new emissions requirements, data from the city’s Business Integrity Commission suggests. […]