NEW YORK, NY November 20, 2007 —Today is expected to be the busiest day of the year at the Hunts Point produce market in the Bronx as store owners get ready for Thanksgiving.

REPORTER: Hunts Point is New York's main food distribution center and supplies 60 percent of all the fruits and vegetables eaten in the metropolitan area. Myra Gordon is the market's executive administrative director. Standing in one of the many warehouses at the market, she points to boxes of produce stacked wall to wall, floor to ceiling.

GORDON: It's amazing. This place will be empty. Other than the hardware of the industry, potatoes, onions, apples, oranges. But broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers all the berry fruits, out.

REPORTER: The market will close Wednesday and re-open again Sunday. That's another reason there's a spike in buying today and tomorrow. All the stores are scrambling to stock up for the week ahead.