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Announcing The Final Mile: Food Systems of New York
How does food shape the city? Food—and the spaces in which it is produced, distributed, and consumed—has always played a profound, if sometimes unacknowledged, role in shaping the physical city. Food...
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Tour Recap: The New Fulton Fish Market
On Friday, April 24th, The Final Mile began, fittingly, at the crack of dawn. Starting at 3:45 AM, thirty bleary-eyed New Yorkers gathered at Open House New York’s offices in the Flatiron District and...
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Tour Recap: Hunts Point Produce Market
When you come upon the Hunts Point Produce Market, the sudden shift in scale is almost startling. Hunts Point feels, at first, like a fairly typical Bronx neighborhood. Driving down Hunts Point Avenue,...
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Tour Recap: Baldor Specialty Foods
The sprawling Hunts Point Food Distribution Center is organized around a broad concrete ring road known as Food Center Drive. Tucked into the center of the loop, just north of the meat market complex,...
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Tour Recap: Food Bank For New York
By the most recent estimates, approximately 1.4 million New Yorkers—almost one out of every five—rely on emergency food, either entirely or supplementally. To meet that immense need, a complex,...
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Alternative Distribution Nodes & Local Economies
This spring, The Final Mile—Open House New York’s year long series exploring how our city’s food system shapes the built environment—kicked off with a series of tours at the Hunts Point Food...
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Tour Recap: Union Square Greenmarket
“These two acres,” says Greenmarket director Michael Hurwitz, standing in the center of Manhattan’s Union Square Greenmarket, “represent 18,000 across the region.” Hurwitz, who was addressing a group...
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Tour Recap: Good Eggs Food Hub
New York City–often portrayed as a world capital of takeout–has seen a boom in recent years in cooking at home as the “foodie” craze has ramped up. Still, New Yorkers have ways of keeping their...
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Food Halls for Modern Life
If there is an architectural expression of New York’s current obsession with food, it is the food hall. Combining elements of the enclosed public markets of the 19th century with the food courts of the...
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Tour Recap: Moore Street Market
On a rainy Saturday morning in 1968, looking out over Moore Street in the East Williamsburg section of Brooklyn from a second-story window, the view would have been striking. That was the year that the...
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Designing New York’s Food Future
The Final Mile concluded in March 2016 with a panel discussion at the SVA Theatre in Chelsea. Part of the inspiration for the Final Mile was the swelling interest in food evident through the...
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