All photos by Alice Speri.
"In every other location in the city, this would be a park," Johnson said. "But not in the Bronx."
FreshDirect's relocation will bring in an additional 1,000 truck trips a day — and that's diesel trucks, despite the company's pledges to go "green." "They lost much of their fleet during Sandy," Johnson said. "But they did not replace them with green vehicles, they replaced them with diesel trucks."
"We have the largest concentration of public housing in the city right here, 40,000 people in a two-mile radius," Johnson said. "People are living here and the whole area is being made into an industrial park. It's like a parking garage down here. You see how the top of the building is darker than the rest of it? It's because we're circled by highways."
The plot on the South Bronx waterfront where the FreshDirect facility will be built.
Mychal Johnson, a co-founder of South Bronx Unite, the coalition of residents fighting the relocation, shows VICE News around the waterfront.
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