Some folks live in water tanks, some folks live in red brick flats. Oil The statistics are frightening. 4 million New Yorkers are at risk of hunger each month. Approximately 120,000 New Yorkers are homeless.
Children are the largest segment of the state's hungry population.
Children are almost twice as likely to be poor as any other group of Americans, including the elderly. More than one in four children in New York State lives in poverty. Soup pantries and kitchens are one of the only means the homeless and poverty stricken have to avoid hunger. On Long Island, twenty soup kitchens feed over 1,500 people daily. In Port Jefferson, St. Gerard's Church operates a soup kitchen on Thursday night.