Throggs Neck Community Alliance<\/a> pantry every week, seeking help to put food on the table. Now, founder Angela Torres is hoping to bring that assistance back to Soundview by reopening a pantry outside the Claire Heureuse Community Center.<\/p>\n\u201cThey otherwise don\u2019t have consistent pantries on this side,\u201d Torres said. \u201cIt\u2019s very difficult for people to get places.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Soundview pantry closed last year after donations declined. Through a new partnership with GrowNYC, the pantry is reopening and will begin distributing fresh and shelf-stable food starting Saturday.<\/p>\n
Torres said the pantry fills a critical need in the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone\u2019s going to wait on line on a cold day like today, sometimes as early as 7 a.m.,\u201d she said. \u201cThat means they really need it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both the Throggs Neck and Soundview pantries are run entirely by volunteers. Torres manages the operations while working a full-time job. She says the work goes beyond providing food.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really try to run it like a family,\u201d she said. \u201cWe get to know the people on the line and their needs. They tell us about their children and what they\u2019re going through.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the reopening approaches, Torres hopes more community members will volunteer to help support the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Food insecurity remains a major challenge in The Bronx. More than one in four people in the borough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,7169,9,24,63,2466,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-105693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-food-pantry","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-soundview","14":"tag-the-bronx","15":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","16":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}