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ABC NEWS: A Community Fridge Door is Always Open

ABC News coverage of the community fridge movement featuring @thefriendlyfridgebx @lacommunityfridges @fenixcommunityfridge @buddysystemmia @miamicommunityfridge @thebushwickfridge @thegowanusfridge
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The Cut - Many Mouths to Feed

The Secondhand Refrigerators Feeding New Yorkers Community fridges across the city are fighting food insecurity, reducing waste, and uniting neighbors.
Time Out Magazine - Brooklynites set up fridges filled with free food for hungry neighbors

In Bed-Stuy—an area populated with a disproportionate number of residents lacking access to healthy and affordable food—Brooklynites have set up a fridge filled with free produce and pantry staples for hungry neighbors who may be particularly at risk right now.
Thrillist - 18 Community Fridges Across NYC and How To Support Them

Donate, become a volunteer driver, or even help paint them—contributing comes in many forms.
Eater - Give Some, Take Some: How the Community Fridge Fights Food Insecurity

At these community-run sites, anyone is welcome to take or leave food.
New York Times - See That Fridge on the Sidewalk? It’s Full of Free Food

For many New Yorkers, healthy meals are hard to come by these days. Now activists are stocking refrigerators for those in need.
Prism Reports -How one community fridge project went international

The project, led by New York City-based anarchist network In Our Hearts, is mutual aid, not charity.
Time Out Mag - A fridge full of free food has popped up outside Greenpoint’s The Lot Radio

The Lot Radio, a makeshift community center, is the ideal locale for North Brooklyn's first fridge.
Cheddar News - Community Fridges Movement Online Feeds the Hungry IRLNew List Item

Their so-called Friendly Fridge isn’t the only one. According to a map curated by activist collective A New World In Our Hearts, there are now more than 35 community fridges plugged in on the streets of New York City and in New Jersey. There are dozens more in cities all across America.
New York Times- Sharing the Wealth at a Dumpster Divers’ Feast

The goal was to find enough food to supply an every-other-week gathering called Grub, which one founder has described as “a cheap, simple dinner for friends and co-conspirators.”
New York Times - In Brooklyn Store, Everything Is Always 100% Off

Merchandise at the Brooklyn Free Store in Bedford-Stuyvesant might include a fur coat, cans of green beans and a book by Plato.
New York Times - Giving Away the Store, an Item at a Time

Mr. David had happened upon the Free Store, where the motto, written on a piece of cardboard posted by the front door, is "Take everything that is not tied down." As the name implies, there is no charge for the store's varied inventory. Swaps or donations, however, are appreciated.
New York Times - An East Village Market Where Everything Is Free Faces an Uncertain Future

For more than four years, people have stopped by St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, on East 10th Street in the East Village, for a monthly gathering known as the Really Really Free Market. The concept owes a debt to both modern Dumpster divers and to the Diggers, a 17th-century English group dedicated to economic equality.
New York Times - Train-Hopping Traveler’s Life, Captured on Film

“It’s freedom,” he said of the experience. “It’s one of the most American things you can do.”
The Guardian - ‘No one should go hungry’: street fridges of free food help Americans survive Covid pandemic

A team of ‘fridge-keepers’ coordinates donations, keep the fridge safe and sometimes even donate food or money from their own pockets.
Greene Hill Food Co-op - Free Fridges Provide Community Support

Freedge.org, which offers maps and spreadsheets for locating current community fridges, recently coined this phenomenon “the in our hearts @iohnyc effect.”