Voices of Our Community

Guest Spotlight: Jose
The guests at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen are the reason we’re here. One of those guests, Jose, shared his experience about receiving support at Holy Apostles. Jose originally moved here at the age of seven. He remembers his first day in New York City, craning his head...

So Much More Than a Meal
Phoenix had never heard of Holy Apostle Soup Kitchen. He was just walking down the street when he saw a long line and asked what it was for. That was in November 2021. Like a lot of New Yorkers, 25-year-old Phoenix had recently lost his full time job due to COVID...

Social Services in Action
If you’ve been to the Soup Kitchen during our daily meal service in the last 2 years, you’ve seen a line of our guests waiting for a hot meal. You’ve probably also seen a slightly smaller line of guests waiting to meet with Jay Alfaro, our Social Services Manager. ...

Good Corporate Citizens
At Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen & Food Pantry, it takes a village to provide food and services for our community. With the help of our amazing team of volunteers, Holy Apostles has never missed a single day of meal service, despite natural disasters, the COVID-19...

Volunteer Spotlight: Kathy
At Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen & Food Pantry, volunteers are the backbone of all that we do. We recently sat down with one of our volunteers, Kathy, who first started volunteering with her husband when they first moved to the Chelsea neighborhood in 2016. When...

Good Corporate Citizen: Tapestry
At Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, it takes a village to prevent hunger in our community. Each week, hundreds of volunteers help provide meals to our neighbors by packing groceries for the families who visit our food pantry, handing out hot meals to soup kitchen guests,...

Partnering with Team TLC and P.S. 11 to Support Asylum Seekers
Since the summer of 2022, Holy Apostles staff and volunteers have stood on the frontlines in support of migrant and asylum seekers arriving in the city. Not unlike the unhoused guests we serve daily, migrants and asylum seekers lack permanent homes and face complex...

Guest Story: Abubaker Family
The Abubaker family, former soup kitchen guests, now have their own apartment and they are grateful for our help. Mom, dad, and their kids ages 9 and 16 had been coming to the Soup Kitchen for lunch. When Abdul started working they moved from a shelter to a rental...

Searching for Home with Judith Rubenstein
Meet one of Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen’s partners: Judith Rubenstein, a New York City-based artist and volunteer. Judith has partnered with Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen to work with Soup Kitchen guests and other individuals throughout New York City to help them express...

The Morning Glory: A Poem from Writers’ Workshop
The Morning Glory by Leucio Parella April 23, 1998 The scent of morning glories is delightful. The morning glory is a peaceful flower. Yes, a tingle goes up my spine in this garden of delight. Would you walk on the green grass with bare feet? Would you see a waterfall...
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