Posted on 01 October 2009. Tags: Food Pantry, recession, woodycrest
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
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Posted on 28 September 2009. Tags: East Harlem, recession
Harlemites queue early for food
By Frances McInnis
September 28, 2009
It’s 8:15 on a warm Wednesday morning in September. Eighteen small wire shopping carts are lined up outside Chambers Memorial Baptist Church on East 123rd street in East Harlem. They sit snug to the church’s white wrought-iron fence, and each is lined with a plastic garbage bag. Read the full story
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