City Plans To Add Supermarkets, Fresh Food To Poorer Areas

City Plan To Add Supermarkets, Fresh Food To Poorer Areas

The Bloomberg administration, in its ever-expanding campaign to make New Yorkers eat better, has already clamped down on trans fats, deployed fruit vendors to produce-poor neighborhoods and prodded corner bodegas to sell leafy green vegetables and low-fat milk.

Now, in a city known more for hot dogs and egg creams than the apple of its nickname, officials want to establish an even bigger beachhead for healthy food �" new supermarkets in areas where fresh produce is scarce and where poverty, obesity and diabetes run high.

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