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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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. Read the full story

Stretching every family’s meal

By Lauren Kirchner
October 1, 2009

A group of people holding colorful pieces of numbered paper waited patiently on the basement steps of Our Lady of Lourdes Church on West 142nd Street at 1 p.m. on Wednesday. They were lining up early; the food pantry below the church wouldn’t start giving out bags of food until an hour later. Inside, 50 grocery bags of food had been placed on a long wooden table. Everyone who came in would receive the same thing: cereal, milk, dried lentils, canned beans and tomatoes, tuna, dry pasta, fresh collard greens, onions, sweet potatoes, bananas and bread.

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The Yorkville Common Pantry serves the community

By Chine Labbe

Photo Credit: Chine Labbe

Every morning, from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Charles Staten welcomes 160 to 200 people for breakfast at the Yorkville Common Pantry (YCP), at 109th Street and Fifth Avenue, in East Harlem. Seated behind his desk, in the pantry’s basement, he collects initials and birth dates for all the clients. He then hands them a yellow card with a number, allowing them to stand in line and get their free meal.

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