Kosher Meals
Kosher-certified meals are available at select sites. These sites are listed below and can also be found in the Community Meals look-up tool.
Kosher meals follow the USDA meal nutrition guidelines and are produced in partnership with a certified kosher distributor. Our kosher meal sites are housed in DOE school buildings and staffed by DOE food service staff. Meals offered at our kosher meal sites are free and available to any New Yorker that requests them.
Queens
Kew Gardens Hill
Far Rockaway
Forest Hills
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Halal Meals
Community Meals sites across the city in areas with large Muslim populations offer expanded Halal meal service. Besides these sites, all community meals sites will continue to offer vegetarian and halal certified options
Queens
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IS 210-9311 101st Ave, Ozone Park, NY 11416
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Hillcrest High School-160-05 Highland Ave, Jamaica, NY 11432
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Thomas Edison High School-165-65 84th Ave, Jamaica, NY 11432
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Food Assistance:
Make the Road New York is running a food pantry. Individuals should call MRNY's Panrty Line and leave a message. Individuals will be contacted by an MRNY staff member to schedule an appointment. Unfortunately, they are unable to accommodate walk-ins at this time.
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Bushwick: Monday + Friday | 9:30 am-2:30 pm (301 Grove Street Brooklyn, NY 11237)
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Jackson Heights: Wednesday + Thursday | 9:30 am-2:30 pm (92-10 Roosevelt Avenue
Jackson Heights, NY 11372)
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Brooklyn and Queens: Call (866) 365-2724 ext 333
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Little Sisters of the Assumption
The Food Pantry will distribute food on Wednesdays, from 9:30 to 1 pm. To better serve the community, the Food Pantry will now require registration. To learn more about registration requirements, please visit here. Most of their other services are running with staff working remotely.
All of these schools, and all of the schools listed in the Spreadsheet below, are giving free breakfast and lunch to ANYONE UNDER 18 years old or ANYONE IN DOE schools from 7:30 AM - 1:30 PM. You should bring your school ID if you have it.
You can use your school MetroCard to travel to get the food. However, it's possible that the MTA doesn't know that you're traveling to get food. If they stop you for using your school MetroCard, nicely tell them that you are traveling to a school to get free food.