HUNTS POINT / SOUTH BRONX GATEWAY [REVISED]

Souvenirs: New New York Icons, Storefront for Art and Architecture’s most recent exhibition, commissioned 59 artists, architects, and designers to reimagine the referential images that constitute the global perception of the city, proposing new understandings of the urban experience. Within this cohort, Cohabitation Strategies’ co-founder Miguel Robles-Durán was invited to propose a souvenir for South Bronx, Community Board 2.

Community Board 2 in the Bronx is inscribed within the 16th Congressional District, known for housing the largest amount of people in the USA living below the Federal poverty guidelines, currently set at $24,300 in earnings per year for a family of four. In this Congressional District more than 250,000 people live in poverty, half of them children, most of them not able no eat properly more than twice a day. Fenced off, side to side with the poorest citizens of NYC, sits one of the largest food distribution centers in the world, the privately managed Hunts Point Cooperative Market, operating in a 46 hectares (113 acres) gated facility and generating anual profits of over $2.3 Billion.