Hunger

Brooklyn Food Pantry Loses Federal Migrant Aid Grants — for Feeding Migrants

April 17, 2025, 6:08 p.m.April 17, 2025, 6:08 p.m.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency yanked $1.3 million in funds from the Campaign Against Hunger, accusing the group of aiding “illegal aliens.”

A person carries goods from the food pantry housed inside a Park Slope church. Its last day is Saturday, March 16.

Brooklyn

Park Slope Priest Evicts Food Pantry From Struggling Catholic Church

March 13, 2024, 5:05 a.m.March 13, 2024, 9:45 a.m.

Exodus of volunteer operations from Saint Augustine follows the arrival of new leadership and an end to Creole and Spanish services.

Queens

Relief Group Seeks Freedom to Keep Feeding Queens

Dec. 19, 2023, 5:52 p.m.Dec. 19, 2023, 7:25 p.m.

Queens Together started bringing free restaurant food to the hungry during the pandemic. Now its founder wants to break from its original sponsor — and take big federal grants with him.

The Bronx

Bronx Community Fridge Operation Raises Big Bucks — and Hackles

Dec. 19, 2022, 5:15 a.m.Oct. 12, 2023, 8:04 a.m.

Grassroots Grocery has a charismatic founder, a compelling origin story and a six-figure reserve fund that mutual-aid workers and organizers in the borough say are the fruits of “poverty pimping.”

Hunger

Free Fridges in The Bronx, Created as COVID Stopgap, Still Meeting Chronic Food Needs

Nov. 30, 2022, 5:00 a.m.Nov. 30, 2022, 4:27 p.m.

The borough’s community refrigerators — fewer than during the pandemic — are strapped for cash as well as volunteers to transport food.

Hunger

As Food Pantries Close, Immigrant Communities’ Needs Grow

April 18, 2022, 6:21 p.m.Nov. 13, 2023, 2:53 p.m.

The demand for food resources continues to grow for many New Yorkers, but closures of community run pantries have resulted in difficulty accessing food banks.

Hunger

NYC’s ‘GetFood’ Free Meal-Delivery Service to End This Fall

Aug. 31, 2021, 8:53 p.m.Aug. 31, 2021, 9:58 p.m.

The popular pandemic-inspired program for senior citizens and homebound New Yorkers who can’t afford delivery will shut down when fed funding ends in October, THE CITY has learned.

Vaccinations

New York’s Emergency Food Workers and Volunteers Finally Get Their Shot at COVID Vaccine

March 1, 2021, 6:25 p.m.March 2, 2021, 6:52 a.m.

The Cuomo move followed pressure from nonprofit pantries and meal delivery services that help keep food-insecure New Yorkers fed amid the pandemic. But mutual aid apparently don’t count.

Brooklyn

With Hunger Growing, Brooklyn Food Pantries Look to Expand Before over

Feb. 17, 2021, 6:27 p.m.Feb. 17, 2021, 8:05 p.m.

Masbia, which operates around the clock, five days a week with two pantries in Brooklyn and one in Queens, is expanding its capacity ahead of what is traditionally the busiest time of the year.

Hunger

Brooklyn Food Pantry Loses Federal Migrant Aid Grants — for Feeding Migrants

Park Slope Priest Evicts Food Pantry From Struggling Catholic Church

Relief Group Seeks Freedom to Keep Feeding Queens

Bronx Community Fridge Operation Raises Big Bucks — and Hackles

Free Fridges in The Bronx, Created as COVID Stopgap, Still Meeting Chronic Food Needs

As Food Pantries Close, Immigrant Communities’ Needs Grow

NYC’s ‘GetFood’ Free Meal-Delivery Service to End This Fall

New York’s Emergency Food Workers and Volunteers Finally Get Their Shot at COVID Vaccine

With Hunger Growing, Brooklyn Food Pantries Look to Expand Before over

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