Garrison Playground

Garrison Playground is a neighborhood park in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx, providing recreational space in a community known for its wholesale food markets and its resilient residents.

Hunts Point is home to the Hunts Point Cooperative Market, the largest food distribution center in the world. The market handles the majority of the produce, meat, and fish consumed in the New York metropolitan area.

Despite hosting the city's food supply, Hunts Point has historically been a food desert, with limited access to fresh groceries for local residents. Community organizations have worked to address this paradox through farmers' markets and community gardens.

The neighborhood has faced significant environmental justice challenges, with industrial facilities, waste transfer stations, and heavy truck traffic concentrated in a low-income community of color.

Garrison Playground provides essential recreational space in a community that is fighting for environmental justice while feeding the largest city in the country.