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Demand Is Up…


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.

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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Walking the Line


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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