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Pop-up 'Block Eats' soup kitchen serves 75–100 in Highbridge during severe cold snap
Summary
A community pop-up called Block Eats set up in a Charter Elementary School cafeteria on 167th Street in Highbridge, Bronx, serving free, chef-prepared meals to an estimated 75–100 people in the first hour; organizers said leftovers will go to local shelters and encouraged volunteers to help sustain the effort.
Block Eats, a newly launched pop-up soup kitchen, served free, chef-prepared meals on 167th Street in the Highbridge neighborhood of the Bronx this week as the city faced a brutal cold snap.
Organizers welcomed neighbors to the pop-up inside a local Charter Elementary School cafeteria, offering culturally rooted soul-food options as well as vegetarian and vegan choices. "We are so excited to break bread with our neighbors," said Speaker 2, an organizer identified in the recording. Volunteers prepared and distributed meals to visitors,…
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