Gotham's Supermarket Shortage: A Public Health Crisis?
The city’s recent building boom has had at least one noticeable deleterious effect on a cross-section of New Yorkers, but especially poorer ones: It’s played a large role in supermarkets closing as owners sell out developers, according to an article published a few weeks ago in the Washington Post. (The story zooms in on a…
The city’s recent building boom has had at least one noticeable deleterious effect on a cross-section of New Yorkers, but especially poorer ones: It’s played a large role in supermarkets closing as owners sell out developers, according to an article published a few weeks ago in the Washington Post. (The story zooms in on a Fort Greene woman who now has to drive in order to get to a supermarket after her local mart was sold off to a developer.) There are now one-third fewer supermarkets in the five boroughs than there were six years ago, says retail consulting company F&D Reports. The Bloomberg administration thinks fewer people having access to fresh produce is a public health crisis, and it’s pushing legislation like the Green Cart law to get more fruit-and-vegetable stands into low-income neighborhoods. There’s also a statewide supermarket commission in the works that will try to come up with new ways to lure groceries to underserved communities. A similar strategy has apparently already been tried in Philadelphia, where a nonprofit organization called Food Trust helped attract 32 new supermarkets. The supermarket shortage, of course, also affects residents of new luxury condos. “How are you going to have million-dollar condos if there’s no place to buy bok choy?” Alicia Glen, the managing director of the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group.
Groceries Grow Elusive For Many in New York City [Washington Post]
Yes, We Have No Bananas: More Fruit Stands for Brooklyn [Brownstoner]
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“within 10 min drive”
again, no thank you.
i live in a city so i DON’T have to drive.
thanks anyway.
enjoy queens! and brownstoner!
11:23 you are a renter
This is a web site about brownstones
actually 11:25 it is less than 4 miles from midtown-
go back to ohio
This is a big problem. They converted the Key Food on Court Street to a CVS. People in southern Carroll Gardens are half a mile from the nearest supermarket.
clean and quiet?
sounds like the burbs.
no thanks.
you love queens so much you are reading and commenting on brownstoner, a blog about brooklyn.
hmmmmmmmmm
i live in middle village queens. i know you hate queens. but i have a 3 bedroom 2 bath apt-(hardwood floors-granite counters and ss appliances) with ample parking outside my door (no opposite side) and my rent is $1700 a month.
the x-press bus takes me into midtown in 15 mins every morning and i have 2 supermarkets within walking distance as well as trader joes and 2 large stop and shops within 10 min drive- the dry cleaner delivers to my home and the mom and pop drugstore does as well
tell me why brooklyn is so great?
rag on queesn all you want but i have what you wish you had at half the price and my neighborhood is super clean quiet and safe
stay in brooklyn cry babies
There is pathmark at Atlantic Terminal. She can easily walk there from Ft. Greene.
There ARE options near to her. She just doesn’t seem to want to go there. She wants to exaggerate and make it seem like it’s such a chore so she can be highlighted in this article.
Your are such a loser, 11:10. If everyone had an attitude like yours, accepting all the shit, nothing would change.
and 11:14 how do you know she’s close to the Union Square lines or anywhere else in Manhattan? People have to buy alot if they have families and don’t have time to run to Traders Joes 3 or 4 times a week. You think carrying carrying a bunch of grocery bags is easy for an older woman on a crowded subway? Is it too much to ask you people to see past the nose on your face?
Why can’t this woman stop on her way home from work in Manhattan at a decent grocery store???
The driving bit and taking 6 cabs and 15 buses to a grocery stores is absurd.
Stop at Union Square and hit Trader Joe’s woman!