Help with Food

Free School Meals

Schools are closed, but you can still get breakfast and lunch. On weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., get meals to go.

You do not need to bring a child with you. Take what your family needs.

You can pick up breakfast and lunch at CPE1. Or, click here for other schools around the city that keep serving free meals.

Food Assistance

New York City is offering assistance with meal deliveries to households that cannot go out due to risks of COVID-19. Click here to see if you qualify.

To find a map of food pantries all over the city, click here.

Meals and Food Pantries in East Harlem

New York Common Pantry Choice Pantry

8 East 109 Street

Hot meals

Wednesdays through Saturdays - 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Pick up food and enroll in Choice Pantry program

Grab-and-go meals

Saturdays and Sundays, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Another Choice Youth and Family Outreach

1765 Madison Avenue

212.369.6643

Hot meals

Wednesdays - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Food pantry

Fridays - 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Bailey House

1751 Park Avenue

212.289.6008

Food pantry

Wednesdays - 1:00 to 3:30

Urban Outreach Center NYC

161 East 104 Street

212.288.6743

Food pantry

Wednesdays and Fridays -

9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. for immuno-compromised

10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. for all others

Catholic Charities at St. Cecilia’s Parish

125 East 105 Street

212.534.1350

Food pantry

Wednesdays 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Iris House

2271 Second Avenue

212.423.9049

Meals to go

Tuesdays through Fridays - 12:00