In Hunts Point visit, Gillibrand touts $50M effort to end food deserts and insecurity

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Perhaps no Bronx community represents a bigger dichotomy in the city’s food infrastructure than Hunts Point.

Home to the city’s largest food producer, the Hunts Points Market — providing nearly five billion pounds of food to city restaurants, supermarkets and bodegas, and 25% of the city’s produce — located in the South Bronx neighborhood is also in one of the nation’s biggest food deserts.