Our super-market style layout allows for shoppers to make choices that fit their families’ needs.
Our food pantry offers fresh fruits & vegetables, whole grains & beans, meats, fish, & milk.
Our multi-tiered approach to improving the health of our community doesn’t stop at our pantry.
We host the local Long Island City CSA, allowing local farmers to deliver fresh produce directly to their urban customers. Any farm-fresh fruits and vegetables leftover from the CSA are donated directly to the pantry to be given to pantry clients.
United Way help us connect local farmers to our food pantry. As a result, hundreds of pounds of fresh, organic vegetables are distributed to our clients each summer and fall.
Educational resources like cooking demos help our community learn more about how to provide nutritious meals.
Come to our pantry for free flu shots, SNAP, and blood pressure screenings. We distribute items such as diapers, formula, backpacks and school suppplies, and holiday gifts, when we can. We also host periodic financial literacy workshops.
Nina, our Food Pantry and Outreach Coordinator, works with a dedicated group of about 20 volunteers that come weekly to help ensure that each distribution runs smoothly.
See first-hand the impact we have on our community.
Pantry distribution takes place during the following days and times:
Mondays, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Thursdays, 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location
We are located inside a gated parking lot on 11th Street between 36th and 37th Avenues. Look for the green awning that says “Hour Children.”
For subway service, take the F train to 21st Street – Queensbridge at 41st Avenue.
For bus service, take the Q66 to 35th Avenue, the Q69 to 36th Avenue, the Q102 to Vernon Boulevard/36th Avenue, the Q103 to Vernon Boulevard/36th Avenue, or the Q104 to 11th Street/34th Avenue.
Phone
718-482-8226
Donations can be brought to Hour Children’s main office at 36-11 12th Street, Long Island City
Monday to Friday 9 am – 5 pm.
Bulk and corporate-sized donations help the most.
We couldn’t do Hour work without your support.