Hunts Point Landing, located on the south end of Hunts Point Peninsula in the Bronx, is scheduled to open in August. In the meantime, the city is pushing to get some more attractions to this new public space to bring people there in droves.
The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is seeking applications for food vendors, an event organizer for a one-day food festival (potentially this fall), and a developer for a 200,000-square-foot rooftop farm, perhaps one of the largest of its kind in the world.
Hunts Point Landing is about one acre along the waterfront, adjacent to the New Fulton Fish Market. The new area—formerly a popular fishing location—features a boulder seating area, outdoor tables, a lawn area, a kayak launch ramp, bike racks, tidal wetland pools, a new fishing pier, and a composting toilet.
General vendor licenses are not yet available, but NYCEDC is now accepting applications for food vendors. Hunts Point Landing will have up to three food carts, located off Food Center Drive.
In addition to food vendors, NYCEDC is seeking an event organizer to put on a one-day food festival sometime in the fall. The event would tentatively include not only food trucks, stands, and pop-ups, but also cooking demonstrations, and agriculture and nutrition education events and booths as well.
Plans for a food festival, to be held at an approximately 4.5-acre portion of the New Fulton Fish Market parking lot, were announced last week. NYCEDC’s decision was based on the number of food festivals throughout the city, and a desire to capitalize on the momentum of other festivals.
“Hunts Point is an ideal location for a new food festival in New York City, creating a strong and important connection between the growing number of food entrepreneurs and the city’s main food distribution hub,” said NYCEDC President Seth Pinsky in a release.
Hunts Point includes the Food Distribution Center, one of the largest food wholesalers in the world, and the New Fulton Fish Market, which relocated there in 2005 after 180 years near the Brooklyn Bridge in Lower Manhattan.
The city has invested $27 million in the Hunts Point redevelopment.
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