200 Green Carts Arrive in Low-Income NYC Neighborhoods

by Leigh Graham · 2009-06-12 13:00:00 UTC
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Produce Stand

With 800 more on the way.  Part of NYC government's food policy initiatives, supported with foundation funding and micro-loans from Accion NY, the mobile produce carts sell raw fruits and vegetables in high poverty neighborhoods around NYC often described as "food deserts."  Soon, 15 of them will carry all-weather wireless technology so that they can accept food stamps.  The NY Times describe the scene, tactlessly perhaps, at the Fordham Road cart in the Bronx as a "frenzy."

This is one of those great articles that shows the early promise of new policy initiatives that come together with the support and cooperation of multiple partners.  Let's see how it goes as time passes and it grows.  There's certainly no shortage of need, given the widespread racial and class health disparities in this country.

(Produce stand in San Francisco's Ferry Building by Inuyaki)

Leigh Graham
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