{"id":246674,"date":"2026-05-28T18:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246674\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:15:07","slug":"the-brooklyn-heights-community-fridge-has-a-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246674\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Heights community fridge has a new home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN HEIGHTS \u2013 THE BROOKLYN HEIGHTS Community Fridge has found a new home, and organizers are hosting a launch party to celebrate this weekend, <a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynheightsblog.com\/archives\/103049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">according to the Brooklyn Heights Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 2021 outside of the First Presbyterian Church on Henry Street to help Brooklynites struggling during the pandemic, the fridge <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/360889\/brooklyn-heights-needs-new-home-for-beloved-community-fridge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">began looking for a new home<\/a> over the winter, after the driveway its green shed was situated in front of became active again. Volunteers helped scout out a spot at the church building across the street, shared by Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church and the new Christ the King congregation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fridge is already open for donations. The grand reopening, on Sunday, May 31, from 1-3 p.m., will feature refreshments, music, information about more volunteer opportunities and a donation drive for Christ the King\u2019s planned family pantry; the church is seeking diapers, baby wipes, formula and other supplies for young children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN HEIGHTS \u2013 THE BROOKLYN HEIGHTS Community Fridge has found a new home, and organizers are hosting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3302,98,100,6748,99,13544,45303,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-246674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-heights","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-community-fridge","tag-first-presbyterian-church","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246674","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=246674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}