Perspectives
I love …. the music, the sounds, the languages, the clothing, the dancing, everything that’s associated with this predominantly Latino history.
Haydee Morales
Executive Director of Casita Maria
A Strong and Distinctive Community
Hunts Point is located on a peninsula in the South Bronx of New York City. It is home to a dynamic and vibrant residential community and thriving business district. It is also home to one of the largest food distribution facilities in the world; a unique and thriving art scene; and community organizations dedicated to developing programming that uplifts the local youth, cultivates and preserves the community’s culture, and focuses on the empowerment and economic revitalization of the neighborhood.
The Hunts Point Experience
Hunts Point Landing
Perspectives
Hunts Point is a manufacturing hub and it’s a community so it’s multiple things for everyone.
Philip Grant
CEO, Hunts Point Produce Market
By The Numbers
650
# of businesses in Hunts Point
Hunts Point Cooperative Market
By The Numbers
18K
Workers, 705 of whom live in the Bronx
Hunts Point Produce Market
Perspectives
What I love about Hunts Point is that it's a unique place. The people are resilient, and it's just this kind of little piece of the Bronx that's its own little village.
Maria Torres
COO, THE POINT CDC
Hunts Point Peninsula
Perspectives
I love …. the music, the sounds, the languages, the clothing, the dancing, everything that’s associated with this predominantly Latino history.
Haydee Morales
Executive Director of Casita Maria
By The Numbers
650
# of businesses in Hunts Point
Hunts Point Produce Market
Hunts Point Landing
Hunts Point Cooperative Market
Perspectives
What I love about Hunts Point is that it's a unique place. The people are resilient, and it's just this kind of little piece of the Bronx that's its own little village.
Maria Torres
COO, THE POINT CDC
Perspectives
Hunts Point is a manufacturing hub and it’s a community so it’s multiple things for everyone.
Philip Grant
CEO, Hunts Point Produce Market
By The Numbers
18K
Workers, 705 of whom live in the Bronx
Hunts Point Peninsula
Ralph Acevedo is a Bronx community leader with a wealth of experience in the fields of housing, homeless services, mental health and governmental affairs.
Past Victories
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Barretto Point Park - After locals reclaimed a brownfield as “La Playita” for public gatherings in the early 2000s, the Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks) and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) worked with locals to design the new park, which opened in 2006.
For questions or more information, please contact the Hunts Point Forward team.