"Food deserts" continue to be a problem in New York City — Transcript

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1. 0:00tomorrow marks one month since the
2. 0:01racist mass shooting at a buffalo
3. 0:03supermarket along with the pain
4. 0:05surrounding gun violence there's renewed
5. 0:07outrage over an issue that affects
6. 0:08millions of people food insecurity that
7. 0:11predominantly black community had fought
8. 0:13for years to get the full service
9. 0:14grocery store where the shooting
10. 0:16ultimately took place it's an issue in
11. 0:19the five boroughs as well the dark red
12. 0:21areas of this map here show
13. 0:22neighborhoods where there are more than
14. 0:2325 bodegas to every one supermarket as
15. 0:27cbs 2's lisa rosner investigates the
16. 0:29solution isn't just about adding more
17. 0:31grocery stores
18. 0:33in some parts of the bronx there are
19. 0:35more than 35 bodegas for every
20. 0:37supermarket according to the city's food
21. 0:39policy center in highbridge the latino
22. 0:42pastoral action center hands out 40
23. 0:44boxes of fresh fruits and vegetables
24. 0:46within minutes the only food we store
25. 0:48around here is the family dollar inside
26. 0:51this dollar tree next to a supermarket
27. 0:53we found residents stocking up on eggs
28. 0:55which are located at the bottom of the
29. 0:57frozen food section across the aisle at
30. 1:00eye level are processed foods like
31. 1:02macaroni and cheese with inflation
32. 1:04pastor esteban rivera says constituents
33. 1:06with food stamps are struggling to
34. 1:08afford healthy food for a single person
35. 1:11they get 100 200 dollars they say by the
36. 1:1415th 16th of the month they're out of
37. 1:16footsteps numbers from the department of
38. 1:18health show in highbridge there are 18
39. 1:21bodegas for every supermarket most of
40. 1:23these corner stores are the best option
41. 1:25for working families that's what's open
42. 1:28you know when they get home from the
43. 1:30second or third job the u.s department
44. 1:32of agriculture refers to neighborhoods
45. 1:34where junk food options inundate healthy
46. 1:36alternatives as food swamps food deserts
47. 1:39are places where at least a third of the
48. 1:41population is more than half a mile from
49. 1:43the nearest supermarket in buffalo the
50. 1:45top supermarket filled that gap until
51. 1:48the attack last month it's been closed
52. 1:50since this could have been any community
53. 1:52i believe that we need more supermarkets
54. 1:55but like dr king said
55. 1:57give people access to more supermarkets
56. 1:59but they don't have money to purchase
57. 2:01purchase food for example our school of
58. 2:04public health is located in central
59. 2:06harlem the whole foods
60. 2:09opening
61. 2:10in central harlem
62. 2:12didn't for most harlem residents change
63. 2:15their food choices because the price
64. 2:18point at whole foods food policy experts
65. 2:21say access isn't always the problem
66. 2:23educating the community about what foods
67. 2:26are healthier is also a challenge
68. 2:28we did a study looking at the prevalence
69. 2:31of street level unhealthy food marketing
70. 2:34and we found that the ratio of unhealthy
71. 2:37food to healthy food was twice as high
72. 2:41in the south bronx and harlem in new
73. 2:44york city bronx works has partnered with
74. 2:46eight supermarkets and bodegas to
75. 2:48increase visibility of healthy options
76. 2:50with signage and offering grocery store
77. 2:53tours
78. 2:54so
79. 2:55here is plenty of thirst with fresh
80. 2:57fruits other initiatives include
81. 2:59hundreds of new york city green carts
82. 3:01selling fruits and vegetables at a
83. 3:03reduced price 1.50 for the whole big
84. 3:05pack the 39 million hub is under
85. 3:08construction in hunts point expected to
86. 3:10increase the city's distribution of
87. 3:12fresh food to areas in need from 2
88. 3:14million pounds a year to 20 million a
89. 3:17program called fresh offers tax
90. 3:19incentives for opening a new supermarket
91. 3:22each of those programs you've mentioned
92. 3:24needs to be
93. 3:25increasingly funded and brought to scale
94. 3:28he says money needs to be poured into
95. 3:30the root of the problem increasing
96. 3:33access to housing and jobs adding
97. 3:35subsidies are not the solution but for
98. 3:38now those partnerships are how people
99. 3:40are getting by in the bronx lisa rosner
100. 3:42cbs 2 news
101. 3:44there is state legislation that's been
102. 3:46introduced that would prevent fast food
103. 3:48companies from promoting unhealthy food
104. 3:50in public spaces since last month's
105. 3:52buffalo shooting residents there have
106. 3:54been taking a shuttle bus the
107. 3:55supermarket chain provided to get to
108. 3:57another location the top supermarket is
109. 4:00anticipated to reopen by the end of july