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Hunts Point

Increase Fresh Food Access to Improve Health Outcomes

Nancy Biberman | Posted 04.25.2013 | New York
Nancy Biberman

Conventional wisdom suggests that the neighborhoods near the world's largest produce market would be veritable fresh food paradises where locals have access to an endless array of nutritious fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately, that's not the case.

INTERACTIVE MAP: Tracking The Fruits And Veggies Of NYC

Posted 11.30.2012 | New York

Surrounded by walls, secured by guards and tucked on the southern edge of the Bronx, the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market presents a forbidding fac...

Saki Knafo

'Salad, What's That?' Bloomberg's Soda Ban And The South Bronx Food Fight

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 06.07.2012 | New York

Every morning, thousands of trucks roll out of a giant produce market in the Bronx bearing loads of arugula, chicory, escarole, radicchio and just abo...

Wodka Removes 'Hooker' Billboard From Bronx

Posted 03.02.2012 | New York

Did Wodka vodka really not know prostitution was a sensitive subject in the Bronx? Namely near Hunts Point?. The company removed a bilboard from ...

PHOTOS: World's Largest Farmers Markets

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

There is perhaps no better supplier for locavore eating then farmers markets for from farm to fork dining. There are 5,274 farmers markets in the Unit...

Puerto Rican Americans Have Highest Asthma Rate In Nation

HuffPost Citizen Reporting | Wanda Hellmund | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Produced by HuffPost Eyes&Ears Citizen Journalism Unit in collaboration with The Bronx Ink at the Columbia Journalism School. Eighteen percent of Pue...