Feeding Clients with HIV/AIDS

By Zoe So
September 11, 2009

At the Salvation Army Harlem Temple Corps at Lenox Avenue and 138^th Street, Alex Brown, 49, checked in at the food pantry on Thursday morning. He had come downtown from his home in the housing projects on 155^th Street in Washington Heights, and has been going to food pantries for almost a year, ever since he lost his job last September. Before becoming unemployed, he had been juggling two or three jobs at a time, including one washing cars for a car rental service. Continue Reading

But ends don’t always meet

Photo Credit: Ashlee Fairey

Once a month at 12:00 p.m. sharp, Diane Groom lines up in front of the Love Gospel Assembly food pantry located on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx’s Fordham Heights. If she isn’t among the first 75 people there, she won’t get her bag of food.

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How seniors help the family

By Andrew Lampard
October 1, 2009

This modest food pantry helps lots of Highbridge seniors. Photo Credit: Andrew Lampard

It is 1:55 p.m. on the second Thursday of the month and already there are five metal carts lined up in front of the food pantry’s door. The owners of the carts, five Dominican women, mingle with one another, speaking in Spanish. They have been here 45 minutes and have another hour to wait before the food is handed out. By then, 49 others will have positioned their carts in the line. Not one patron in the group will be younger than 65.

Welcome to the Christ the King food pantry on Marcy Street, just a few storefronts west of the Grand Concourse. Every second and fourth Thursday of the month, the Church’s rectory operates a food pantry for elderly citizens of Community District No. 4 in the Bronx in Highbridge. The only eligibility requirements are that you be 65 years of age or older and live in the district. Continue Reading

Supply Doesn’t Always Follow

By Alan Neuhauser

The Breadbasket at Woodycrest United Methodist Church, located at 89 W. 166th St. in the Highbridge section of the Bronx. Photo credit: Alan Neuhauser

Food lines came to represent the Great Depression of the 1930s. And in the Bronx, they have come to represent the so-called “Great Recession” of the late-2000s. Continue Reading