LOST IN THE SUPERMARKET
What the government missed when it tried to fix food deserts
by STEPHEN TUCKER PAULSEN
Jan 01, 2017
3 minutes
DEBORAH GILFILLAN lives between Brooklyn’s first Trader Joe’s and its flagship Whole Foods. She’s also walking distance from Union Market, a local grocery chain where flank steak sells for $15.99 per pound. But these stores are too expensive and don’t have the right ingredients for the 62-year-old contract administrator, a native Brooklynite who lives in a brownstone she bought for a song back in the 1960s. Nowadays, she usually walks or takes the bus almost a mile
You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.
Start your free 30 days