$1.7 billion Hunts Point Access Improvement Project completed after 6 years, promising safer streets

The three-phase, $1.7 billion Hunts Point Access Improvement Project was officially finished in late Nov. after having started in 2019, Governor Kathy Hochul announced. Much of the work dealt with improving truck access to the Hunts Point Market, the nation’s largest food distribution site, where more than 60% of New York City’s meat, fish and produce cycles through. Traffic and pollution around the food hub have long plagued Hunts Point, but the project’s design now