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#NeighborhoodVoicesNYC: Shop Healthy NYC! Recap

We recently shared the stories of New York City shop owners and community advocates who support Shop Healthy NYC!

The program works with bodega community partners to increase the healthy options they sell, such as low-sodium canned goods, whole-wheat bread, fruits, vegetables and water.

You can encourage local businesses to provide healthier offerings. The How to Adopt a Shop Guide offers tips for working with retailers to have them offer more nutritious foods.

For the full series: #NeighborhoodVoicesNYC

Additional Resources

Accelerated Sales Tax Exemption Program  

NYC Food Metrics Report 2017 (PDF)

Nutrition Services

Good Choice Nutrition Initiative for Food Service Providers

NYC Food Standards

Nutritional Education for Children

Deliver these postcards to your local store for healthier items

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#NeighborhoodVoicesNYC: Lameane Isaac

The Brooklyn Public Library’s Macon branch offers Shop Healthy NYC! workshops for parents and caregivers to help their young children develop healthy eating habits. All attendees get Health Bucks to buy fresh fruits and vegetables at NYC farmers markets.

“We wanted to offer a quality program that teaches parents and caregivers how to advocate for and how to shop for healthy and nutritious foods in their communities,” says Lameane Isaac, the branch’s neighborhood library supervisor.

Ms. Isaac requested the Shop Healthy NYC! workshops for her library to educate residents on what they can do to get healthier food options in their neighborhoods, for themselves and for their families.

Shop Healthy NYC! works with local food retailers to increase the healthy options they sell.

Follow along with #NeighborhoodVoicesNYC.

Additional Resources

Accelerated Sales Tax Exemption Program  

NYC Food Metrics Report 2017 (PDF)

Nutrition Services

Good Choice Nutrition Initiative for Food Service Providers

NYC Food Standards

Nutritional Education for Children

Deliver these postcards to your local store for healthier items  

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#NeighborhoodVoicesNYC: Shop Healthy NYC!

Everyone has a right to affordable, nutritious food to keep them healthy.

However, not everyone has equal access to these foods, and many neighborhoods lack places that offer healthy alternatives. Bodegas often do not have space for fresh foods, while many supermarkets have limited staffing – making it more difficult to make changes. Full-service grocery stores with affordable, quality produce are absent from many neighborhoods, including in the South Bronx, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville and East Harlem. Sometimes this is a result of historical disinvestment and structural racism,

That’s why our ShopHealthyNYC! program partners with bodegas in the South Bronx, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville and East Harlem to increase the healthy options they sell, such as low-sodium canned goods, whole-wheat bread, fruits and vegetables.

You can encourage local businesses to provide healthier offerings. The How to Adopt a Shop Guide offers tips for working with retailers to have them offer more nutritious foods.

We’re sharing the stories of shop owners and community advocates who support Shop Healthy and food justice in their neighborhoods. Follow along with #NeighborhoodVoicesNYC.

Food Justice means everyone should have access to safe, healthy, affordable and culturally-appropriate foods no matter who they are or where they live.

Additional Resources

Accelerated Sales Tax Exemption Program   

NYC Food Metrics Report 2017 (PDF)

Eating Healthy Initiatives

Good Choice Nutrition Initiative for Food Distributors

NYC Food Standards

Nutritional Education for Children

Deliver these postcards to your local store for healthier items     

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#NeighborhoodVoicesNYC: Widalin Araujo

Since 1991, Widalin Araujo has owned Banesa Grocery in the South Bronx. Through Shop Healthy NYC!, he set up fresh fruit and vegetable stands right near the front of his store.

“The customers always thank me for trying to help them,” he says. “The beans in the can are low-sodium; the corn is low-sodium. If you eat less sodium, it’s better for you. The people try it and continue to show up. They tell me they like the products and thank me for offering them low-sodium choices.”

Shop Healthy NYC! works with local food retailers to increase the healthy options they sell.

Follow along with #NeighborhoodVoicesNYC.

Additional Resources

Accelerated Sales Tax Exemption Program  

NYC Food Metrics Report 2017 (PDF)

Nutrition Services

Good Choice Nutrition Initiative for Food Service Providers

NYC Food Standards

Nutritional Education for Children

Deliver these postcards to your local store for healthier items

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#NeighborhoodVoicesNYC: Tawnya Manion

Tawnya Manion is the culinary director of SMART University, which works with the 110th Street Key Food in East Harlem to promote healthy fruits and vegetables to its customers. Through our Shop Healthy NYC! program, SMART University helped the store bring more attention to its healthier items by posting signs and strategically setting up displays near the check-out counters.

“Unfortunately with high-poverty neighborhoods comes low-quality food and low access to food,” Manion says. “I am seeing a shift in the neighborhood as a whole in what they’re expecting in their grocery stores and what they’re cooking at home.”

Shop Healthy NYC! works with local food retailers to increase the healthy options they sell.

Follow along with #NeighborhoodVoicesNYC.

Additional Resources

Accelerated Sales Tax Exemption Program  

NYC Food Metrics Report 2017 (PDF)

Nutrition Services

Good Choice Nutrition Initiative for Food Service Providers

NYC Food Standards

Nutritional Education for Children

Deliver these postcards to your local store for healthier items

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#NeighborhoodVoicesNYC: Karen Washington

Karen Washington is a #foodjustice activist and community gardener at the Garden of Happiness, as well as the La Familia Verde Farmers Market in the South Bronx. She educates residents on the value of food, culture, and learning the facts around nutrition and diet.

“Shop Healthy facilitates mutual conversation between the bodega and the community about increasing access to affordable nutritious food,” she says about our Shop Healthy NYC! program. “People need to understand that they have a right and a privilege to healthy food.”

Shop Healthy NYC! works with community partners to increase the nutritious options in neighborhoods.

Follow along with #NeighborhoodVoicesNYC.

Additional Resources

Accelerated Sales Tax Exemption Program  

NYC Food Metrics Report 2017 (PDF)

Nutrition Services

Good Choice Nutrition Initiative for Food Service Providers

NYC Food Standards

Nutritional Education for Children

Deliver these postcards to your local store for healthier items

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#NeighborhoodVoicesNYC: Norman Ramsey

“The [Shop Healthy NYC!] program opened my eyes,” says store owner Norman Ramsey whose Brooklyn corner store has been a staple in the community for 34 years.

When Shop Healthy NYC! first visited Mr. Ramsey, they showed him how he was already offering nutritious food in his store. With some help, he learned how to better  display healthier foods in the store and  started providing additional options like salads and juices to his customers.

“I see that people are trying to be healthier, especially the younger people who are trying to be more health-conscious,” he said. “This is one of the reasons that I want to do the fresh juices, smoothies and salads because honestly, people have been asking me for them.”

Since getting involved with our Shop Healthy NYC! program, Mr. Ramsey has dedicated one refrigerator to selling salads, smoothies, and fresh juices. The program educated him on nutrition, and now he’s educating his community.

“Shop Healthy had me teaching people really. I was actually teaching customers a healthier style of food. If they end up going to the supermarket, they have an idea of a healthier choice of food – one that they could possibly buy,” he said.

Support Black and Latino shop owners like Norman Ramsey. Look for the Shop Healthy NYC! sign in stores!

Shop Healthy NYC! works with local food retailers to increase the healthy options they sell.

Follow along with #NeighborhoodVoicesNYC.

Additional Resources

Accelerated Sales Tax Exemption Program  

NYC Food Metrics Report 2017 (PDF)

Nutrition Services

Good Choice Nutrition Initiative for Food Service Providers

NYC Food Standards

Nutritional Education for Children

Deliver these postcards to your local store for healthier items