New Jersey State Health Assessment<\/a> data say that as of 2023,\u00a0105,780 people\u00a0in Hudson County were food insecure, about\u00a014.9% of the county\u2019s population, the highest percentage of any county and more than four percentage points higher than the state average.<\/p>\nLocated at 685 Broadway in Bayonne, the two-story facility represents a $6.3 million investment in addressing food insecurity across Hudson County. The project is funded through $5 million in State American Rescue Plan (ARP) funding and $1.3 million in Hudson County ARP funding.<\/p>\n
The first floor of the facility will house the consumer-choice pantry and will feature commercial-grade refrigeration and freezer units, dry storage shelving, point-of-service stations for inventory management, and a dedicated loading dock for efficient food deliveries.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Hudson County Community Market\u00a0will\u00a0operate\u00a0by appointment and will include evening and weekend hours to better\u00a0accommodate working individuals and families. Daily operations will be managed in partnership\u00a0with a nonprofit organization\u00a0selected through a fair and open\u00a0process to ensure\u00a0high-quality, community-centered\u00a0service.<\/p>\n
Plans for the building\u2019s second floor are being\u00a0finalized, with the space intended\u00a0to serve as offices where residents can connect with\u00a0county social\u00a0services and other supportive resources. The\u00a0Hudson County Community\u00a0Market\u00a0will be staffed primarily by volunteers, with one full-time and two\u00a0part-time county staff members supporting operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"courtesy Hudson County Executive Office Hudson County Executive Craig Guy and Bayonne Mayor Sharon Ashe-Nadrowski participated in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[45755,116316,97160,116317,116318,9,24,63,34081,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-307508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-american-rescue-plan","tag-arp","tag-craig-guy","tag-hudson-county-community-market","tag-new-jersey-state-health-assessment","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sharon-ashe-nadrowski","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307508","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=307508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}