Old Ancient Truck Stop in Manhattan

14th st meat market ? ..I dunno .

 

I think you are talking about
The bronx market before they cleaned it up .

 

355 food center drive Was the meat market...produce market is just down the street .

 

The only ones I can remember were in Queens. That was the early 1980s. I don't remember any in Manhattan,and I was there every week.

 

Feels like Hunts Point to me. Depends on whats in the truck. In those years NYC was very dangerous. I recall rolling out at sunrise outbound listening to roll calls of names of the dead on the traffic radio from the previous night, then the list of those at Bellevue who need parents, gaurdians or other to come claim them a few dozen souls a night.

PTSD was not a term in those days but for me it was not a good time.

They did clean it up. I recall certain areas back then it's girls and women this side and boys and men that side whats your pleasure. They cleaned that up too. What a City.

I made my last trip into hunts about 2 months before the towers fell. With the wife no less. That particular trip was treated as a full on combat mission sortie from Dairen CT in the night. What was remarkable was there was no one to and from the place night and day which was totally out of character. We had two customers inside that place expecting half trailer loads of meat prepackaged and preloaded to order. No lumping Group 1 went to first customer and group two went to customer number two across the property.

When customer number one got his meat he refused to get out of our trailer. Closed the doors and transported him across to customer number two. Opened the doors and backed in. He had to walk back. Why? A scam, if he rearranged the load against dispatch orders specific you pay him 60 then to find out the packing is ruined and you pay the customer number two another 60 in fees to get it off. And there you are. All shafted. That's not going to happen. Group one got a free trailer ride.

 

Maybe Hunts Point.