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Council Member Salamanca highlights the importance of Hunts Point Markets
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Council Member Rafael Salamanca, Jr. introduces himself as the representative of Hunts Point and emphasizes the significance of the world's largest produce markets located there. He highlights the markets' crucial role in food distribution for New York City and the surrounding area.
- Salamanca mentions that Hunts Point markets feed about 75% of people in the tri-state area
- The markets include produce, meat, and fish facilities
- Over 700 businesses operate in the Hunts Point area
Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
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So I represent Hunts Point.
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I represent the world's largest produce markets.
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Well, meat, fish, and the over 700 businesses that are in are in Hunts Point.
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If we can just start with, can you give us a percentage of the food that comes from Hunts Point?
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It feeds what percentage of New Yorkers in the Tri State area?
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Do you have a number on that?
Michelle Lamberti
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Thank you for the question, council member.
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I do not.
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I could probably speak more broadly to the amount of like I know for the produce that market, I think it's like at least 50% of the produce that runs through the market feeds New York New Yorkers.
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I think it's 35% of New York City's meat runs through the meat market.
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Yeah.
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And 45% of fish runs through the meat market.
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It's really I
Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
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go around I got a number one time that they the markets gave me.
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They said they feed about 75% of of New Yorkers in the tri state area.
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So we could say that the markets play a major role in our food source in the city of New York.