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2024 Press Releases

• For Diabetes Awareness Month, Three Patients Share How the Lifestyle Medicine Program Improved Their Diabetes, November 21, 2024
• Adams Administration Celebrates Progress of Rikers Island Culinary Training Initiative to Cook Healthier Meals, Reduce Citywide Carbon Emissions, and Create Workforce Training Opportunities, November 7, 2024
• NYC Health+Hospitals Launches Free, Monthly Produce Boxes for Patients of Lifestyle Medicine Program, August 8, 2024
• Mayor Adams Breaks Ground on $18 Million Marlboro Agricultural Education Center in Brooklyn, June 1, 2024
• NYCEDC Opens Kensington Met Fresh Supermarket with Support from City's FRESH Tax Benefits, May 31, 2024
• Mayor Adams Completes Rollout of Composting in all New York City Public Schools, May 7, 2024
• New York City Awarded $100,000 Grant to Provide Plant-Based Culinary Training to Workers at Rikers and Juvenile Justice Centers, April 22, 2024
• Mayor Adams Announces Cross-Sector Partnership to Reduce Food-Related Carbon Emissions Across NYC, April 18, 2024
• Mayor Adams Completes Citywide Expansion of Lifestyle Medicine Program, New Site Launches Today in South Bronx, March 21, 2024
• NYC Health + Hospitals Celebrates 1.2 Million Plant-Based Meals Served, March 14, 2024
• Mayor Adams, Chancellor Banks, No Kid Hungry NY Honor this Year's "NYC Hunger Heroes" and City's Food Education Champions, March 7, 2024
• Mayor Adams Unveils Ambitious Plan to Make New York City Leader in 'Green-Collar' Jobs, February 28, 2024
• The Biden-Harris Adminstration Announces Nearly $1.7 Billion in New Commitments Cultivated Through the White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities, February 27, 2024
• Mayor Adams Takes Major Steps To Advance 'Dining Out NYC,' Nation's Largest Outdoor Dining Program, February 2, 2024
• NYC Health + Hospitals Releases New Episode of The Remedy, a Podcast from the Largest Safety Net Health System in the United States, January 23, 2024

2023 Press Releases

• Mayor Adams, Health Commissioner Dr. Vasan Launch Ambitious Whole-of-Government Campaign to Extend Lifespan of All New Yorkers, November 1, 2023
• Mayor Adams Announces Record-Breaking $6 Billion in Spending with NYC's M/WBE Firms in First Fiscal Year of Adminstration, October 2, 2023 
  
• Mayor Adams Unveils Food Education Roadmap to Promote Healthier School Communities Across New York City, June 6, 2023
  
• Mayor Adams Commits to Reducing City’s Food-Based Emissions by 33 Percent by 2030, April 17, 2023 
  
• Mayor Adams, Chancellor Banks, No Kid Hungry NY Honor This Year’s “NYC Hunger Heroes,” March 14, 2023

2022 Press Releases

• Mayor Adams and Chancellor Banks Announce Expansion of Cafeteria Enhancement Experience, December 20, 2022
• Mayor Adams Reappoints Kate MacKenzie Executive Director of Mayor's Office of Food Policy, October 7, 2022
• Mayor Adams and Chancellor Banks Announce Launch of Inaugural Chefs Council, September 27, 2022
• Mayor Adams, Chancellor Banks, No Kid Hungry Recognize This Year's "NYC Hunger Heroes," March 10, 2022
• Mayor Adams Takes Executive Action to Promote Healthy Food in New York City, February 10, 2022

2021 Press Releases

• Food Forward NYC: City Releases 10-Year Food Policy Plan, February 22, 2021

 

News Articles

2024

• Tackling food insecurity in NYC: Groups battle hunger as more New Yorkers find themselves struggling to eat (amNewYork) November 13, 2024
• NYC takes a bite out of climate change (NY Daily News), September 29, 2024 
• New report confirms NYC Public Schools reduced overall emissions by over 40% through plant-powered meals (Humane World for Animals), September 24, 2024
• A Summer Youth Jobs Program Placing Students in School Kitchens Offers a Taste of Culinary Careers (Chalkbeat), August 6, 2024
• Sowing Change: Embracing Plant-Powered Meals in NYC (Food Tank), May 16, 2024
• City Food Procurement is an Investment in Our Planet (City Talk), April 26, 2024
• NYC Awarded $100K Grant to Boost Plant-Based Culinary Skills in Correctional Facilities (Corrections1), April 23, 2024
• New York City Mayor Eric Adams Teams Up with Foodservice Providers to Reduce Food-Related Carbon Emissions (Foodservice Director), April 10, 2024
• Caring for Our Common Home: Fordham Sustainability Spring Update (Fordham University), April 10, 2024
• The Monthly Special: Battle of the Dining Halls 2024 (Columbia University), March 28, 2024
• City's Lifestyle Medicine Program Now Available Across the Five Boroughs (News 12), March 21, 2024
• Bronx Borough President Talks About New Lifestyle Medicine Site (Spectrum News -- NY1), March 21, 2024
• NYC Health and Hospitals Mark 2-Years of Serving Patients Plant-Based Foods (News 12), March 15, 2024
• NYC Health + Hospitals serves 1.2 Million Plant-Based Meals (Becker's Hospital Review), March 15, 2024
• How New York's Schoolchildren Got Their French Toast Sticks Back (New York Times), March 8, 2024
• City to Restore Many School Food Items Cut from Menus (Spectrum News -- NY1), March 6, 2024
• Sustainable Plates, Sustainable Cities: Urban Leaders are Taking Climate Action with Transformative Food Policies (Food Tank), January 17, 2024
• How New York City is Getting Plant-based Meals into Schools, Hospitals, and Jails (Fast Company), January 16, 2024

2023

• The Program that has NYC Patients "Knocking Down the Doors" (Becker's Hospital Review), December 19, 2023
• Lifestyle Medicine Program Expands to Kings County (BK Reader), December 3, 2023
• Celebrity Chefs Help Serve Healthy Meals to NYC’s School Children (ABCNY), October 26, 2023
• New Menu Options on Offer at the City’s School Food Test Kitchen (Spectrum News – NY1), October 26, 2023
• Eat Healthier and Save the Earth (NY Daily News). October 16, 2023
• How New York’s Public Hospitals Cut Carbon Emissions: More Vegetables (New York Times), August 31, 2023
• Here’s How We Can Improve Food Education in NYC Schools (amNewYork), July 9, 2023
• Upcycling Against Food Waste (Bloomberg), April 18, 2023
• An Apple A Day Might Actually Keep the Doctor Away (Washington Post), January 30, 2023

2022

• New York City Is Making Strides in Tackling Food Insecurity for Children (amNewYork), December 22, 2022
• Eric Adams: I Reversed My Diabetes. Now I Want to Help America Get Healthy (CNN), September 28, 2022 

2021

• Kate Mackenzie, MS, RD: COVID-19 Food Hero (Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center), June 20, 2021
• How New York City Is Revolutionizing Good Food Policy (Center for Good Food Purchasing) April 5, 2021
• How New York City Is Revolutionizing Good Food Policy (Forbes), March 23, 2021
• NYC Has Distributed 200 Million Pandemic Meals–But There's More to do to Fight Hunger (City Limits), February 13, 2021

2020

• Ending Hunger by Supporting Food Pantries and Making Sure They Aren’t the Only Option (Gotham Gazette), November 23, 2020