Voices Stories by Pete Davis
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Queens is hungry: Food banks and soup kitchens overwhelmed
Every Tuesday, José Carmen Cortez travels from Brooklyn to the Church of San Marco [Saint Mark's Church] in Jackson Heights to eat lunch at the soup kitchen and to pick up a weekly bag of groceries from the food bank. On Mondays and Wednesdays, he travels to Manhattan to a similar program where he can get a hot meal and escape from the cold.
VIDEO :: A September 2009 video from SequenceNews.com highlights the increased hunger and food insufficiency in Queens, NY in 2008. more>
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