Greenwich Village soup kitchen served its last meal
BY ALEJANDRA
O'CONNELL-DOMENECH
Renovations at St. Joseph’s Catholic
Church forced a soup kitchen
to fi nd a new home.
St. Joe’s soup kitchen, which has operated
out of the church’s basement for
the last 40 years, will be relocated to
First Presbyterian Church at 12 West
12th Street and Fifth Avenue. Although
the soup kitchen’s new home is
not far, the move represents the end of
a 40-year-long tradition run out of the
basement of St. Joseph’s Church.
Hungry New Yorkers stopped by St.
Joseph’s for the last time on Saturday,
Dec. 14. The move to the new location
will happen this weekend.
“I’m sad to see them move, but happy
that they will continue to serve those
in need,” said Father Boniface Endorf
in an email. “The parish and the soup
kitchen along have tried work out some
way to keep the soup kitchen in the
basement for the last year, Father Boniface
added.
But given the work needed to renovate
the building and bring the basement
up to code, “the soup kitchen
decided that it was best to fulfi ll their
mission at a new location.”
The soup kitchen at the St. Joseph’s
serves meals at 1:30 on Saturday afternoons.
First Presbyterian Church did
not respond to a request for comment.
PHOTO BY ALEJANDRA O’CONNELL-DOMENECH
Scaffolding covers the facade of St. Joseph’s Church on 6th ave. Renovations have forced a soup kitchen run
out of the church’s basement to find a new home.
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8 December 19, 2019 Schneps Media