Joel Crist from a fifth-generation apple-growing family in New York’s Hudson Valley discusses his company’s history and production. They produce 75 million apples annually, shipping three tractor-trailer loads daily across regions like Florida to Maine. Despite challenges such as spring freezes and droughts, the farm continues to supply millions of apples each year for various products including pies and cider. The article also mentions concerns about a new grocery store opening on East 86th Street in New York City, which some residents feel is unnecessary given existing stores and issues with street conditions.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-05,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
And one of its biggest apple growers tells me:
“I’m Joel Crist.
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Back to 1883, we’re fifth-generation growers.
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I eat them with peanut butter and raisins.
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“Our Hudson Valley company has over 200 people working.
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people → have → ?
We produce 75 million apples here.
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Florida to Maine, we ship three tractor-trailer loads a day.
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Five generations ago, my great-great-grandfather would take his horse and buggy into town.
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grandfather → take → town
Early generations filled barrels on barges, down the Hudson River into New York City.”
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generations → fill → City
This spring’s freeze killed fruit.
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freeze → kill → fruit
We supply millions of apples every year, and there’s drought, fire.
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All taste different.
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I learned it at Cornell.”
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Cornell has its own problems.
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“Yes, but our rich nutrient soil makes great applesauce, apple pie, apple cider.
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Apples cross-pollinate so every seed creates a new variety.
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Rain makes them bigger.
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Teams of world scientists pick them in fall.
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They taste different.
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“We do varieties.
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Scientists and college consumers work on this.
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Cornell scientists constantly crossbreed to create new varieties.
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Remember, an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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Get one in July, it’s just as good as the one you get tomorrow.
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Something needs to be done about the mishmash on East 86th Street.
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Happier Grocery is now coming there, and Our Town’s Arlene Kayatt says the last thing that area needs is another grocery store.
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area → come → ?
86th’s corridor is beginning to resemble the Congo after a cranky animal fight.
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Not needed is another groceteria.
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Now supermarket Happier Grocery OK’d taking over the 21,000 square feet that housed City Cinemas.
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Everyone loved that movie house.
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This street does not need another grocery store.
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East 86th remains a store mishmash — some open, some languishing.
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“It has perennial scaffolding, overflowing trash cans, delivery bikes parked everywhere, crime, homelessness,” Kayatt writes.
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Happier Grocery does nada happiness to 86th.
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One’s hustling tomatoes, another’s heavy on string beans.
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Big, small, who cares?
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All look alike.
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How different can you dress a cucumber?
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Soon come polls.
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One from WalletHub actually considered Idaho as the “No. 1 state” to live in.
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Substack’s Jim Fragale read that somewhere and says he’s never even met anyone from there.
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…and 3 more, not listed.
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