Food Accessibility in Chinatown/Lower East Side

Chinatown/Lower East Side is a lower-income neighborhood.

"For every one supermarket in the Lower East Side and Chinatown, there are 18 bodegas. “

“Bodegas are less likely to have healthy food options than supermarkets."

But who decided supermarkets are the only way to access healthy food?

(Lower East Side and Chinatown)

“ Supporting others is a good thing, but it has often been accompanied by efforts to reform the ways of vagrants, immigrants, and others who appear not to share white middle-class so-called American Values”

- Julie Guthman

Works Cited:

Guthman, J. (2024). The Problem with Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can't Hack the Future of Food. University of California Press.

Lower East Side and Chinatown. (n.d.). NYC.gov. Retrieved October 8, 2024, from https://www.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/data/2018chp-mn3.pdf