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What They're Saying
Tom Colicchio, Chef & Owner of Crafted Hospitality
"Every restaurant, food bank, hospital, school, grocery store and bodega in Manhattan depends on truck deliveries for their survival.
While I support the goals of reducing traffic congestion and improving air quality in Manhattan, it shouldn’t come at a cost to our city’s renowned independent restaurants or hamper New York City’s well-established goals around hunger relief and curbing diet-related disease.
Making sure there are commonsense exemptions for essential food service distributors based within the five boroughs and who already pay for the MTA just makes sense."
Andrew Rigie, Executive Director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance
“We are huge supporters of public transportation, and that’s how a lot of restaurant employees get to work. But if it’s going to be in effect, there should be an exemption for essentials like food. Seafood suppliers don’t have the option of taking the subway or public transportation.”
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Leslie Gordon, CEO & President for the Food Bank for NYC
"So congestion pricing really takes away an opportunity for us to increase the amount of food that we're sending out into the marketplace. There's got to be some sort of middle ground, especially for organizations like us right here at Food Bank for New York City.
It's another 90,000 meals plus that we could be putting out across the boroughs. That's what congestion pricing is going to do to our organization here at Food Bank."
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