BoCoCa: Help Fight Hunger by Dropping Off Canned Food in Carroll Park

CARROLL GARDENS, BROOKLYN — Local community group Friends of Carroll Park will be running a food drive to benefit City Harvest over the next four Saturdays (that's Dec. 17, Dec. 24, Jan. 7 and Jan. 14).

You can donate non-perishable items from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on each of those day at the Carroll Gardens Park House, located in Carroll Park at 219-237 Carroll St.

The food drive is most interested in collecting canned vegetables, peanut butter in plastic jars, packaged macaroni and cheese, and hot and cold cereal in family-sized packages. Organizers say that City Harvest can't accept glass containers, any homemade items, dented cans, or expired food.

If you'd like to volunteer at the food drive, or if you'd like to coordinate your own drive with what the Friends are putting together, you can email the group at friendsofcarrollpark@yahoo.com.

City Harvest says it plans to deliver 55 million pounds of food this year to many of the 1.7 million New Yorkers living in poverty.

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