The Crown Heights Farm Share offers new food choices to both new and longtime residents.
Brooklyn accounts for more than 37 percent of the estimated 1.8 million New Yorkers who receive SNAP assistance. Over 37,000 of those are in East Flatbush, one of the highest figures in the borough.
The fraught relationship between the Hunts Point Market and its neighbors in the community is a model example of the food insecurity that pervades other low-income neighborhoods across the city