Volunteers Gather For City Harvest Warehouse's 'Repackathon'
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - For 24 hours straight, boxes were packed to help provide food for Thanksgiving to New Yorkers in need.
"The size of these bags here when we came in are now probably 2 or 3 feet high. But when we came in they were 5 or 6 feet high," Matt Tierney said, a volunteer at the City Harvest Warehouse.
Volunteers gathered for the event, called a "repackathon," in Long Island City, WCBS 880's Peter Haskell reports.
"We've been repacking really great food into smaller bags that we can distribute to soup kitchens and food pantries throughout New York City," the organization's executive director, Jilly Stephens, said. "Well in the five boroughs of New York City, we know that 1.4 million of our neighbors are struggling to put food on the table."
The group distributes 50 million pounds of food a year.
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