Hunger Action Month: Here’s how you can support your neighbors amid NYC’s food insecurity crisis

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As New York City’s food insecurity crisis worsens amid rising prices and federal assistance cuts, one leading organization in the fight against hunger is encouraging residents to get out and help their neighbors.

City Harvest, the city’s largest food rescue organization, has launched its annual Hunger Action Month campaign to raise awareness about the rising rates of hunger across the five boroughs and urge New Yorkers to take action.

Since it’s founding in 1982, City Harvest has rescued more than one billion pounds of surplus food that would have gone to waste and redistributed it to needy New Yorkers through local food pantries, soup kitchens and Mobile Market distribution events.

This year alone the organization expects to rescue and redistribute more than 86 m