As the government shutdown continues to interrupt funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the 1.8 million New Yorkers who depend on the program are worried they will not be able to feed their families.

More than 300 people recently showed up at a pop-up Lower East Side food distribution, just looking for the essentials to help them survive.

It was a last-minute event, planned in just three days by the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC).

“There’s really this overall sentiment of fear,” Marilla Li, director of programs at the CPC, said. “To just make sure that no matter what kind of limitations D.C. may set — that New York City and state are not going to leave any people behind,” she said of the motivation behind the pop-up.

Mei Yu Wang is among those worri

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