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Local Volunteers Pull Together to Serve the Homeless of Bushwick During Temperature Drops

“After the housing crash, back in 2008, they didn’t have jobs… And their families, they threw them out.”

Local Volunteers Pull Together to Serve the Homeless of Bushwick During Temperature Drops

Local Volunteers Pull Together to Serve the Homeless of Bushwick During Temperature Drops

“After the housing crash, back in 2008, they didn’t have jobs… And their families, they threw them out.”

Local Volunteers Pull Together to Serve the Homeless of Bushwick During Temperature Drops
Father Mike Lopez’s voice is effusive and booms for all to hear. On a Saturday afternoon, after a shock of sub-zero cold, he can be seen exiting an emergency-red colored van with the words “Community Response Vehicle” written across in yellow. A small group of volunteers follows him, pulls out plastic tables, a plastic bag filled with coats and a large thermos filled with hot noodle soup. A small line develops, here along Knickerbocker Avenue and Starr Street, in front of an entrance to Maria Hernandez Park.

Lopez and his volunteers are not alone. On this particular morning, a congregation from the Jeremiah Twenty Nine Eleven Homeless Project beats the Hungry Monk Rescue Truck by mere minutes…

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