The Bronx Ink

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Kingsbridge and Marble Hill: a mixed bag for access to healthy food.

Stephen Quinones, 42, a city housing employee at the Marble Hill housing project in Kingsbridge had a few opinions about the food selection in his neighborhood.

Munching on a bag of Peanut M&Ms, he pointed to the tightly packed array of food establishments along the stretch of Broadway near the project where he lives.

“They’re missing a couple of main stores: a KFC, a couple of Spanish joints,” he said. “I get tired of Mcdonald’s, Subway, the deli and Chinese food.”

Although the South Bronx is home to some of the city’s worst obesity rates, Kingsbridge and the Marble Hill neighborhoods to the north aren’t exactly an oasis of health either. The Bronx as a whole had higher obesity rates for every age group than in New York City overall, according to a May 2007 New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene report, “Obesity in the South Bronx: a look across generations.”