Leaders of the New York City Council, led by Councilmember Rafael Salamanca Jr. came to Hunts Point to present a symbolic oversized check for $3.45M that will enable the city to add emergency generators at the Meat Market Cooperative (Co-Op), the largest meat distribution center of its kind in the world.
The Hunts Point Meat Market, which lacks emergency electrical generating equipment in case of a prolonged power outage, was originally built in 1972 as a 40-acre facility with 6 buildings, but is now over 60 acres with 7 buildings containing approximately one million square feet of refrigerated space.