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Allan Nosoff

Hunts Point Market

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This morning we are at the Hunts Point produce Market where Storm watching meteorologist Alan Nose is standing by with all on the preparations being made for the holidays. That's where we get all our good food. Exactly. This place is so important. They feed so many places around the country all. How's it going over there? What are you finding? It's been a really busy morning here, Noel in Asia and listen, we're now in the comforts of inside, but either way it's still really, really cool. Take a look off to my left and what you're going to see is again a little bit, a little taste of all the different kinds of produce fruits and vegetables that you basically get to your table for Thanksgiving dinner. You have different kinds of grapes. You have apples, man goes, you have strawberries, you have so many different kinds of fruits here and to talk a little bit more about this because now we're inside, inside of the sales booth. We have VP of marketing here for the Hunts Point Market, Gabriella Derigo. Thank you for, for having us here as well. On the busiest morning of the year of course, thank you for coming. Yeah. So tell me a little bit more about what happens here compared to how we were the last couple of hours outside. So inside of the sales booth is where our customers have an opportunity to come in. We put a small sampling of the different items that we do offer to sell. Um, it's in a temperature controlled room, so we're not out on the dock, something's not going to freeze or get any kind of damage. It's safe in here. They can come in, they can touch the product sample, the product, taste the product to make sure that that's specifically what they want to buy. And then inside of the coolers, we will have those locations of those items that will actually get loaded onto their truck, they're untouched and that will get delivered to the stores and to the restaurants. Got it. Yeah. And you, your family have been involved with the Hunts Point Market for quite a while. Four generations. In fact, four generations, um, myself and five of my cousins, we are part of the fourth generation. My three uncles run the business. They are the third generation and my grandfather started the company here. Um, we also have four generations deep out in our farms in California and four generations at our facility in Boston as well. Yeah. And tell me a little bit more about how things get done on the busiest day of the year. Compared to different days here. Um Well, we're used to it now. We've been doing it for quite some time. So we have the preparation ready. We know what the shifts are gonna be. We ask guys to come in a little bit earlier, maybe stay a little bit later. Um And we have a general idea of what the volume is gonna be on average on this day, we push out about £30 million of produce out of this market, which is roughly three times the amount that we usually do daily on any other day. So we know it's going to be busy, we properly staff. We make sure that all of the systems and products are in their locations where they should be and that we're communicating to the customers, to our suppliers as well. Make sure we're prepped to make sure we have, you know, the inventory that we need to satisfy the needs.

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Going over to the Hunts Point produce market storm Watch team. Meteorologist Alan Nose is there and this place is so special. Alan, this is the busiest day of the year for them. All of the fixings we have on our table for the holidays. It comes right from the hunts point, produce market. Yeah, pretty much Asia, basically everything but the turkey because, uh, it doesn't really count as, you know, your produce. And speaking of some of the produce we have just to my left again. This is just a tiny sample of so many different things we have here. We have of course the squash, the cantaloupe, we have the carrots and this is just some of the things that you have on your Thanksgiving dinner table, basically tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening and more or less 90% of it comes from right here in the Bronx. The Hunts point produce market gets shipped on to these trucks. You see here, it's, it's such a conveyor belt basically so efficient it gets from here on to these trucks then out towards the grocery stores, the green Grocers, your supermarkets. This is the distribution point for pretty much almost anything New Yorkers will eat this Thanksgiving. You know how much actually is going to be here. Just day alone. Today is the busiest day here at the Hunts Point market. About £30 million of produce. That's a lot. And speaking of which, take a look at this is a very busy corridor. Think of it as like the Gowanus Expressway of the Hunts Point produce market. You have all of this right here, super busy. We've been out here since five in the morning and it has had no quit. So many people, thousands are trying to get the food out to the grocery stores out so that you can have a really nice Thanksgiving dinner. Again, those sweet potatoes you have, of course, your cranberries, your apples, all of that is taken here. We're right now actually at A J's, we're a little bit earlier, of course, a little bit farther down towards. So again, it's a lot of different places here at the Hunts Point produce market and this is the busiest day of the year. Basically five days worth of work is done in three days. Really cool stuff here. We'll be here for the rest of the morning. We're gonna have us. Well, an interview in the next hour. So you want to stay tuned for that. But in the meantime, here from Hunts Point in the Bronx, I'm meteorologist. A NOSA News 12

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On the road this morning at the Hunts Point produce market where Storm Watch team, meteorologist Alan Nose is standing by and listen. If you eat all that food on Thanksgiving, they are the ones that help get it there. Yes, not just here. This market feeds the entire country. Now, Alan, who are you speaking with there? And what do you have to show us? Yeah. Yeah, we're going to show you our very special guest in just a second. But of course, we have so many different things here at the Hunts Point. Produce market. Just take a look off to my left. You're seeing all the different kinds of fruits and vegetables. This is just a tiny sample. You have the pineapples, you have the oranges and of course, so many different kinds of apples. You name it all of those that you are getting for your table. This Thanksgiving comes through here, Bronx sites. That's right here at the Hunts Point Pro market over £30 million. And of course, the very special person I have here, who is the heart of the operation is Philip Grant, CEO of the Hunts Point Produce market. Thank you. So much for being here today. Welcome to the market. Oh, it is really incredible stuff. It's hard to comprehend how many £30 million here, £30 million of produce right out of the Bronx three times our normal daily volume going right out into the region. We serve a 50 mile radius from the market. So anything on your table, 90% of it is coming out of the market. That's incredible. And of course, right, except the turkey. But listen, literally everything else is down here. And of course, today is the busiest day of the year for you guys. So how does that impact your day to day operations to make sure everything is taken care of on a day? Like today, our job is to keep the region fed New York fed. So we rock n roll every day. We open up at 9 p.m. the night before and we go all the way until 3 p.m. the next day. So this is what we do. We keep New York fed, right? So many hard workers here in the middle, the night, keeping everyone protected and listen, one of the things you've been here for over four years. So tell me a little bit about what you do. Absolutely. So I'm the face and the voice of the market. We make sure that New York stays fed. And our 29 merchants, we support the 29 merchants here in the market and getting the food out into the region. That's what I do on a daily basis. Right. And of course, we're on ST much because we're going to get quite a bit of rain here over the next couple of days. So when there's heavy rain or there's, let's say a snowstorm during the winter, how does that impact operations here? Rain, sleet, snow, we continue going. We have to keep the 22 million people in the region fed it's nonstop. We're here. That's crazy. Philip Grant. Thank you so much for being here. We're going to be here all morning, taking a look at pretty much everything here, hunts point, produce market. Incredible what an amazing operation there is here. We'll have more updates later in the next half hour for now. Meteorologist Alan OSA News 12. All right, Alan, bring us back some fruits. Ok.

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All right, we're going straight out to the Hunts Point produce market. Thanksgiving is almost here. You probably get so much of the food you need from right here. Now we're gonna send it over to Storm Watch team. Meteorologist, Alan Nosa. All right, Alan, you're there with one of the busiest days of the year. See, this is where all the magic happens so we can eat on Thanksgiving day. Very important. Exactly as Noel. Actually, it is the busiest day of the year here at the Hunts Point market. Take a look at, for example, all of the different apples you have here, the risk you have the Gala, you have the golden delicious, the granny Smiths, all of these kinds of apples. There's hundreds thousands, there's just so many can't even keep counting. It's just one of the many items that go out from here to your local grocery store, to your local supermarket and green grocer. You have your sweet potatoes, your cranberries and one of, of course, the people that we have here, we have Michael Armada from the Armada Inc. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you very much for having me. And you're 1/4 generation as well. Let's talk a little more about that fourth generation. My great grandfather came here from Italy and he sold lemons out of a burlap sack. Eventually got a push cart and eventually we ended up here. That's incredible. And listen, day to day operations. I know today is super busy. But like how do you make all this magic work so quickly, so efficiently. We always like to say it's controlled chaos. You know, there's so many things going on. There's so many different variables you're trying to control. But at the end of the day, you just got to make sure you get the job done. And on a day, like today, you have £30 million that are going out to our local Brooklyn to our local New York City area locations. So how does that work? Of course, we see a lot of the trucks behind as well. Yeah, we'll be since Sunday we've been loading up trucks while unloading all the loads coming in, reloading them on our trucks, sending them out to customers. Also, customers have been coming in, they're loading up their trucks and we're trying to make sure that all the stores are filled for Thanksgiving. And uh one of the fun facts that I learned before this is that, oh, usually you do five days of work in just three days. Like how do you make this control chaos work so well. Yeah, you know, there's a lot to do with um getting your trucks in at a reasonable time, making sure that, you know, you're routing your trucks properly and making sure you can just accommodate everybody. You know, that's the main thing right now. It's Thanksgiving and everybody's in a rush. So we want to make sure that everyone has what they need. That is awesome. And listen, it's almost like your uh belt parkways of the road. The Goanna is with so much traffic behind us. Thank you so much for having us here as well. Michael. Really? This is the busiest day of the year. So many different types of produce. We're gonna send it back into the studio, Hnol meteorologist, Alan Nosa News 12.

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Storm Watch Team Meteorologist Allan Nosoff is dropping by the Hunts Point Produce Market checking on all the preparations being made for the holidays.

Checking out the Thanksgiving hustle and bustle at Hunts Point Produce Market

Storm Watch Team Meteorologist Allan Nosoff is dropping by the Hunts Point Produce Market checking on all the preparations being made for the holidays.

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