Voice of a Guest: Marcos Marcos stops in at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen on his lunch break once or twice a week for a midday meal. While he doesn't live in the area, he's often in the neighborhood because of his job, driving for a car dealership. "I used to go to this...
Voice of a Guest: Elizabeth Elizabeth first came to Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen after coming back to New York for the first time in two years. “I walked away from an apartment I had in Massachusetts because it was unsafe and unviable,” says Elizabeth....
Voice of a Guest: George George is in his 60s. He worked all his life for a textiles company until four years ago his job was outsourced overseas. He looked hard for another job but everyone wanted someone younger, someone with different experience. Before too long,...
Voices from our Community: Jinhua and Karen Jinhua Xie is a soup kitchen guest who has been coming here for a couple of years. A native of China, Jinhua and his wife saved up to legally immigrate to New York 13 years ago. They found a home and work here and began a...
Samuel & Ninoska Wilson always have a smile, even though life hasn’t always smiled on them. At 14, Samuel came here from Liberia with his parents. “I didn’t know I was undocumented until I left school,” recalls Samuel, “since then, my immigration status has been a...
Voice of a Guest: Leo Leo was 32 when he was laid off from a large multinational insurance company during the recession. Without the safety nets of savings or close family, after months of fruitless job seeking, Leo found himself on the streets. With nowhere else to...
Gerard first came to Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen as a child. When food stamps weren’t enough to feed his family, his mother took Gerard and his brothers and sisters from their Hell’s Kitchen apartment to the soup kitchen. “Every day we would trek from 48th Street to...
Voice of a Guest: Norman A native New Yorker, Norman first came to the soup kitchen eleven years ago when his life spiraled out of control after his mother’s death. Alone and unable to deal with his grief, Norman turned to drugs and alcohol and eventually ended up...
Voice of a Social Services Partner: Robert Robert has been delivering important messages for a long time now, and we’re fortunate that his work has brought him back through the doors of Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen. In the mid 1990’s Robert was a bike messenger in...
Voice of a Guest: Edward Edward is a freelance commercial artist with an ample portfolio of comic book illustrations, some which he would like to use to develop a new video game. But, Edward's been coming to the soup kitchen regularly this summer, as a second round...