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All of New York’s Apples | Ambrook Research

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On a map, the New York City Produce Terminal Market resembles the four tines of a fork, angling toward the single-strand Bronx River as though ready to swirl it up like a loose noodle. Glimpsed through the chain link fence on Halleck Street at around 10 a.m. on a Monday in June, it looks like a vast, slumbering truck depot, or some sort of light industrial facility. This quartet of low-slung buildings is so drab, so unremarkable, so anti-monumental, that you’d be forgiven for heading right past it without a second glance. But within these unassuming structures, a vast hoard of fresh fruits and vegetables sit in chilled rooms, waiting until nightfall, when they will be dispersed among the city’s tens of thousands of grocery stores and restaurants. Trailers line the decks of the New York Terminal Produce Market at dawn, the end of the market day. The market — everyone here calls it “the market” or just “Hunts Point” — is the first stop for much of the produce that is bought, sold, and ea

Hunts Point Produce Market has provided NYC’s fruits and vegetables for decades. But how long can it last? On a map, the New York City Produce Terminal Market resembles the four tines of a fork, angling toward the single-strand Bronx River as though ready to swirl it up like a loose noodle. Glimpsed through the chain link fence on Halleck Street at around 10 a.m. on a Monday in June, it looks like a vast, slumbering truck depot, or some sort of light industrial facility. This quartet of low-slung buildings is so drab, so unremarkable, so anti-monumental, that you’d be forgiven for heading righ

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