Hunts Point
Hunts Point is a neighborhood located on a peninsula in the South Bronx of New York City. It is the location of one of the largest food distribution facilities in the world, the Hunts Point Cooperative Market.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Neighborhood with 27,200 residents
- Description: Bronx neighborhood
- Also known as: “Hunts Point, Bronx”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Barretto Point Park and Hunts Point Library.
Barretto Point Park
Park
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Barretto Point Park is a waterfront public park on the East River located in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, United States. Its namesake is Francis J. Barretto, a 19th-century merchant and State Assemblyman who lived in the area.
Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center
Prison
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The Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center was an 800-bed jail barge used to hold inmates for the New York City Department of Corrections. The barge was anchored off the Bronx's southern shore, across from Rikers Island, near Hunts Point.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Clason Point and Port Morris.
Clason Point
Neighborhood
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Clason Point is a peninsula and a neighborhood in the East Bronx, New York City. The area includes a collection of neighborhoods including Harding Park, and Soundview.
Port Morris
Neighborhood
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Port Morris is a neighborhood geographically located in the southwest corner of the Bronx, New York City. The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community Board 1. Port Morris is situated 1½ miles southwest of Hunts Point.
Melrose
Neighborhood
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Melrose is a mostly residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of the Bronx. It adjoins the business and onetime theater area known as The Hub. Melrose is situated 1½ miles northwest of Hunts Point.
Hunts Point
- Category: locality
- Location: Bronx, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.8126° or 40° 48′ 45″ northLongitude
-73.88403° or 73° 53′ 3″ westPopulation
27,200Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)United Nations Location Code
US HUIOpen location code
87G8R478+29OpenStreetMap ID
node 158868324OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Persian—“Hunts Point” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “亨斯角”
- Dutch: “Hunts Point”
- French: “Hunts Point”
- Italian: “Hunts Point”
- Japanese: “ハンツ・ポイント (ブロンクス)”
- Japanese: “ハンツ・ポイント”
- Persian: “هانتس پوینت”
- Persian: “هانتسپوینت (برانکس)”
- Persian: “هانتسپوینت”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hunts Point Playground and Joseph Rodman Drake Park.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hunts Point”. Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.