{"id":192014,"date":"2026-04-10T10:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192014\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:22:08","slug":"our-forgotten-borough-the-bronx-has-nycs-bread-basket-but-can-barely-feed-itself-bronx-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192014\/","title":{"rendered":"OUR FORGOTTEN BOROUGH | The Bronx has NYC\u2019s bread basket, but can barely feed itself \u2013 Bronx Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this month\u2019s edition of Our Forgotten Borough, we are tackling the food security crisis facing the Bronx today.<\/p>\n

Photo by Jonathan Portee\/Illustration by Luis Matos<\/p>\n

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It is no exaggeration to say that Hunts Point is the bread basket of the greater New York City area. Between 22 and 30 million people in the tri-state area eat meat, fish and produce that comes through the market. Without the market, we\u2019d practically starve.<\/p>\n

And yet, just down the street in the same exact neighborhood, you\u2019ll find it nearly impossible to fill a basket full of the same fresh, high-quality goods shipped into and out of Hunts Point every day. Bronx residents are struggling to put food on their families\u2019 tables because of the increasingly high costs of living \u2014 and cutbacks to numerous aid programs.<\/p>\n

In this month\u2019s edition of Our Forgotten Borough<\/a>, we are tackling the food security crisis facing the Bronx today. We\u2019re examining how residents cope with limited food choices and higher costs by following several families as they shop locally for groceries. We\u2019ll also see how families are having to leave the borough entirely for more affordable options and specialty items.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We are also looking at the potential impact of cuts to essential government programs such as the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, upon which so many Bronx residents rely, and efforts by local organizations to keep people fed.<\/p>\n

For all its importance in keeping the city well fed, the Bronx should not have to experience such hunger pangs and difficulty in getting nutritious, inexpensive food accessible to nearly everyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this month\u2019s edition of Our Forgotten Borough, we are tackling the food security crisis facing the Bronx…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[56812,37809,76794,35225,4761,9,24,56,63,65,64,54251,10604,12825,14225],"class_list":{"0":"post-192014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-bodega-food","9":"tag-bronx-food","10":"tag-bronx-food-initiatives","11":"tag-bronx-food-insecurity","12":"tag-hunts-point","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news","19":"tag-our-forgotten-borough","20":"tag-snap","21":"tag-snap-benefits","22":"tag-snap-cuts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}