FOOD PANTRY

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Free Meals for Students and Families

All families and students can continue to go to any school building between 9:00 a.m. and noon on weekdays to pick up three free grab-and-go meals. No identification or registration is necessary. Halal and kosher meals are available at some sites, which are listed at schools.nyc.gov/freemeals.

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

  • P.S. 164 - 138-01 77th Avenue,11367

Far Rockaway

  • P.S. 253 - 1307 Central Avenue,11691

Forest Hills

  • Forest Hills HS - 67-01 110th Street, 11375

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

  • IS 210⁠-9311 101st Ave, Ozone Park, NY 11416

  • Hillcrest High School⁠-160-05 Highland Ave, Jamaica, NY 11432

  • Thomas Edison High School⁠-165-65 84th Ave, Jamaica, NY 11432

 

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.


  • Bushwick: Monday + Friday | 9:30 am-2:30 pm (301 Grove Street Brooklyn, NY 11237)

  • Jackson Heights: Wednesday + Thursday | 9:30 am-2:30 pm (92-10 Roosevelt Avenue
    Jackson Heights, NY 11372)

  • Brooklyn and Queens: Call (866) 365-2724 ext 333

  • 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.

  • INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS
  • 45-35 Van Dam Street, Long Island City, NY 11101
  • Aviation High School
  • 45-30 36th Street, Long Island City
  • I.S. 061 - Leonardo Di Vinci
  • 98-50 50th Ave, Corona
  • I.S. 093 - Ridgewood
  • 66-56 Forest Ave, Ridgewood
  • I.S. 125 - Thom J. McCann Woodside
  • 46-02 47th Ave, Woodside
  • Bryant High School
  • 48-10 31st Ave, Astoria
  • P.S. 234
  • 30-15 29th Street, Astoria
  • P.S. 069 - Jackson Heights
  • 77-02 37th Ave, Jackson Heights
  • I.S. 171 - Abraham Lincoln
  • 528 Ridgewood Ave, Brooklyn