“Big Apple Crunch” was a bite heard ’round the city
The wind was howling and swirling, the weather chilly and fall was finally making its presence felt this season, but nothing was louder than the crunching of fresh apples, at Borough Hall on Thursday, October 24 as the city of New York joined together for the second annual “Big Apple Crunch,” a Food Day event at which New Yorkers attempted to beat last year’s record of having the most participants in an apple-crunching event.
Borough President Marty Markowitz teamed up with GrowNYC Executive Director Marcel Van Ooyen; Kim Kessler, the City’s Food Policy Coordinator; Jim Allen, the head of New York State Apple Growers Association at Borough Hall; and DJ Hip Hop’s crew, to lead the crunching event at GrowNYC’s Brooklyn Borough Hall Greenmarket.
Plenty of apple crunches took place throughout the day as members of more than 250 organizations and groups participated, including schools, afterschool programs, senior centers, farmers markets, food stores and workplaces.