"The Food Retail Expansion to Support Health Program (FRESH) was developed in response to a citywide study, PDF Document Going to Market, conducted by the Department of City Planning in 2008, which highlighted the widespread shortage of neighborhood grocery stores providing fresh food options in several communities of New York City. The FRESH Program offers zoning incentives and financial benefits in these underserved communities. Its goal is to encourage the development and retention of convenient, accessible stores that provide fresh meat, fruit and vegetables, and other perishable goods in addition to a full range of grocery products. The program offers a set of zoning incentives that provide additional floor area in mixed buildings, reduce the amount of required parking for food stores and permit larger grocery stores as-of-right in light manufacturing districts. The financial benefits, administered by the NYC Industrial Development Agency, exempt or reduce certain taxes for qualifying FRESH food stores."

source: https://web.archive.org/web/20191002140913/https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/zoning/districts-tools/fresh-food-stores.page

see also

• https://web.archive.org/web/20191031191138/https://edc.nyc/program/food-retail-expansion-support-health-fresh
• https://web.archive.org/web/20191002140951/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/plans/supermarket/supermarket.pdf

NYC Open Data

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Business/FRESH-Food-Stores-Zoning-Boundaries/w9uz-8epq

Department of City Planning Bytes of the Big Apple

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/data-maps/open-data.page#zoning_related