Greater Hunts Point EDC

EVENTS

06/14/2025

Hunts Point Fish Parade & Arts Festival

12pm

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4pm

940 Garrison & 1391 Lafayette

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06/14/2025

Hunts Point Fish Parade & Arts Festival

The Fish Parade & Arts Festival is a vibrant, family-friendly Hunts Point tradition, open to all from the Bronx and beyond. This joyful marc...

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12pm

-

4pm

940 Garrison & 1391 Lafayette

06/04/2025

THE HUNTS POINT SPRING MINGLE

12noon

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2pm

The Point Campus for Arts & The Environment 1391 Lafayette Ave (@ Edgewater Road)

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06/04/2025

THE HUNTS POINT SPRING MINGLE

The premier business networking event for the Greater Hunts Point area. Information on key local initiatives, sumptuous food, live music, r...

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12noon

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2pm

The Point Campus for Arts & The Environment 1391 Lafayette Ave (@ Edgewater Road)

2/19/2025

Intro to Bookkeeping and Financial Statements

4pm

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6pm

on-line

2/19/2025

Intro to Bookkeeping and Financial Statements

4pm

-

6pm

on-line

2/12/2025

Secure Your Small Business: A Cybersecurity Essentials

4pm

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6pm

on-line

2/12/2025

Secure Your Small Business: A Cybersecurity Essentials

4pm

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6pm

on-line

1/30/2025

Pursuing a CDL (Commercial Drivers License)

5:30 pm

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6:30 pm

on-line

1/30/2025

Pursuing a CDL (Commercial Drivers License)

5:30 pm

-

6:30 pm

on-line

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Food for Thought

NYC Restaurant Hiring, Onboarding, and Training Playbook

strategies and tools that any foodservice business operator can use to create a more supportive and productive experience for your new hires resulting in higher retention rates

City Unveils Vision for Hunts Point Marine Terminal on Site of Former Jail Barge

New York City Econ Dev Corp May 27, 2025

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Spofford Juvenile Facility Redevelopment Continues - Gilbane Development, Hudson Companies, and MHANY Management Inc. Announce Topping Out of Phase Two of the Peninsula, a 100 Percent Affordable Mixed-Use Development in the Bronx

New York City Econ Dev Corp May 27, 2025

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Farmworker Unions on the Rise in New York, Joined by the United Farm Workers

Civil Eats 3/31/25

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Five Years After COVID, the Restaurant Labor Market Has Yet to Recover

Eater 3/14/25

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New Proposals to Change SNAP Could Take Food Away From Millions of

Low-Income Individuals and Families

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities 1/13/25

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Bronx Brewery to merge with Captain Lawrence Brewing Co.

amid industry challenges

Bronx Times Oct 2, 2024

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Mayor Adams Announces $77 Million in Federal Grants to Electrify School Buses,

Build First-in-the-Nation Electric Truck Charging Depot

March 18, 2024

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Electrify All the Big, Noisy, Belching Trucks

NY Times Op-Ed Dec 30, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/30/opinion/diesel-electric-trucks-pollution.html?mwgrp=c-dbar&unlocked_article_code=1.Kk0.U6hI.7GFau1gtDhYs&smid=url-share

California Pushes Electric Trucks as the Future of Freight

NY Times Dec 28, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/business/energy-environment/electric-trucks-port-california.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Some trucking companies in California are trying EVs,

eyeing a state mandate down the road

National Public Radio MARKETPLACE Aug 8, 2023.

https://www.marketplace.org/2023/08/08/california-ev-trucking-mandate/

(Both audio and text)

NYSERDA - The Clean Neighborhood Challenge

The Bronx is Breathing: Reimagining a Cleaner Hunts Point

The Clean Neighborhood Challenge is a New York State competition to access up to $30 million to build healthier disadvantaged communities through clean transportation. OUR TEAM HAS MADE IT THOUGH ROUND ONE!!

The Hunts Point is home to the nation's largest urban wholesale food hub, 9 waste transfer facilities, several large recycling yards, a robust manufacturing sector and a vibrant residential community of 13,000, all located in the southern tier of the poorest urban Congressional District in the United States. The peninsula is characterized by disparities between a thriving living wage employment hub that benefits the entire downstate region and an archetypal environmental justice community where 40% of residents live below the poverty line and children ages 5-14 consistently have some of the highest asthma rates in the state.

The solution laid the proposal "The Bronx is Breathing" seeks to the leverage battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and public charging infrastructure to improve air quality and create economic opportunity for the South Bronx without disrupting the essential freight activities that power the local economy......