Food Distribution
Delivering to All Five Boroughs
Together with our network of more than 400 food pantries and soup kitchens across the city, we are working hard to help feed the nearly 3 million New Yorkers struggling to make ends meet.
Since our founding more than 40 years ago, City Harvest has rescued more than one billion pounds of surplus food that would have otherwise gone to waste and delivered it, free of charge, to our partner food pantries and soup kitchens, Community Partner Distributions, and our Mobile Markets® to help feed New Yorkers experiencing food insecurity.
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Where does the food go?
Our Agency Partners
Our fleet of trucks makes daily deliveries to more than 400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and other community food programs across New York City’s five boroughs.
Mobile Markets®
We provide over three million pounds of fresh produce, free of charge, every year to nearly 10,000 New York City households through our outdoor farmers’ market-style distributions of fresh produce that we call Mobile Markets®.
Community Partner Distributions
We’ve expanded our successful Mobile Market model through partnerships to reach more communities across the five boroughs with our Community Partner Distributions.
Produce Pals
City Harvest Produce Pals combines nutrition and culinary education with free produce distribution, ensuring that families have both the skills and the ingredients to prepare delicious, affordable meals. At some partnering New York City schools where we provide nutrition and culinary education programming, City Harvest distributes free bags of nutritious, versatile produce, like sweet potatoes, apples, and onions to students and their families once a month.
In a city where 1 in 4 children does not always know where their next meal is coming from, Produce Pals makes food distribution as convenient as possible for families so that students have access to the nutritious foods they need to thrive.
Investing in our Agency Partners
Our Network Capacity team offers support to help build the capacity of partner agencies, including providing grants, trainings, and volunteer management resources, to best serve and meet the needs of our communities.
Meeting Cultural and Religious Dietary Needs
City Harvest works to ensure New Yorkers with specific dietary needs also have access to nutritious and culturally appropriate foods through our Kosher and halal food rescue programs.
Our Kosher food rescue program addresses the dietary needs of the more than 500,000 Jewish New Yorkers living below or near the poverty line. Since 1999, we have collected and delivered more than 98.3 million pounds of kosher food to kosher community food programs across the city.
We also partner with several agencies serving large halal-observant communities. This year, we plan to rescue and distribute 1,052,000 pounds of food, including fresh produce and halal meat, to 3 halal food programs across New York City.
