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The Market that Feeds New York

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Early morning dispatch from New York's largest produce market.

On Friday morning, I wake up at 4 am to get to Hunts Point produce market — home of New York’s largest fruit and vegetable distribution center. It supplies the city’s grocery stores, bodegas, fruit stands, and restaurants. Public transit to the Bronx is sparse at this hour. As we pull off the highway at 4:30 am, the streets are full of activity. Trucks line the sides of the road, waiting their turn to enter one of three distribution centers; fruit and vegetables, meat, and seafood. Bus stops have people queued up. While the rest of the city is sleeping, this corner of the Bronx is coming…

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