Plan to modernize NYC's diesel-spewing produce market falls apart under Mamdani
A $650 million project to modernize the Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx has stalled. Local officials are currently working to salvage the redevelopment plan.
A worker at Hunts Point Produce Market in 2022. Bronx officials are scrambling to try to salvage a transformative project worth $650 million.
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