A food collaborative has launched in Flushing after a major food pantry in the neighborhood was evicted last month. The organizations behind the new food pantry are figuring things out as they go.
Read MoreOfficials continue the search for a new home for La Jornada, a major food pantry in Western Queens that was evicted from its headquarters in a Flushing NYCHA complex at the end of last month.
Read MoreLa Jornada, a food pantry in Flushing that serves over 10,000 families in Northwest Queens, is being evicted from its NYCHA headquarters by the public housing authority at the end of the month. The mayor offered to help find the nonprofit a new space but with two weeks remaining, one has yet to be found.
Read More“Something we all have in common and can come together over is food.”"
Read MoreThe Department of Education’s Grab-and-Go meal service began on June 28.
Read More“The need is so great.”
Read More“It’s unconscionable that anyone should go hungry in one of the wealthiest cities in the world.”
Read MoreNourish New York has enabled 4,000 farms to deliver more than 17 million pounds of food to people in need.
Read More“We don’t turn anyone away. Anyone who comes can get food.”
Read MoreSeldom does the association between food insecurity and the elderly population cross one’s mind on first thought.
Read MoreWoodbine is raising money to serve food and pay the rent at their new site.
Read More“The pandemic has caused the need for our services to explode,
Read More“We heard how pantry lines were getting longer and longer and we were using the plots to grow food for the food pantry.”
Read MoreThe nonprofit organization Commonpoint Queens has distributed more than 1 million pounds of food since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.
Read MoreWoodbine also provides newsletters, community guides and workshops.
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