Overview
- At the Hunts Point Produce Market, which unveiled 20 new electric‑hybrid refrigeration units Wednesday, officials said congestion‑pricing revenue will fund 75 additional replacements this year.
- The state set aside $15 million to swap diesel transport refrigeration units for cleaner electric, hybrid, or clean‑diesel models, with vendors offered more than $37,000 per unit to opt in.
- Transport refrigeration units are separate diesel engines that keep food cold and often idle for hours, and MTA leaders estimate replacing one unit cuts particulate pollution equal to 330 truck trips a day, with the first 20 equating to about 6,000 trucks.
- Monitoring since the program launched in January 2025 shows no significant traffic diversion into the Bronx and more than a 20% pollution drop inside Manhattan’s toll zone.
- Bronx communities are slated for $330 million in mitigation that includes an asthma treatment center, air filters in local schools, new green space, and an expanded clean‑trucks effort that has already removed or upgraded 711 high‑emitting vehicles.