{"id":1384,"date":"2025-05-27T12:57:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T16:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu\/nyfoodatlas\/?post_type=locations&#038;p=1384"},"modified":"2025-10-11T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:44:45","slug":"love-wins-food-pantry","status":"publish","type":"locations","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/nyfoodatlas\/locations\/love-wins-food-pantry\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Wins Food Pantry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Love Wins is a local volunteer-run food pantry that operates out of Friend\u2019s Tavern on Roosevelt Avenue. This is the original location where it was started during the pandemic for those in the LGBTQIA+ community that are experiencing food insecurity. There was a gap in distribution centers where, \u201cthere were a lot of food pantries in the neighborhood helping people who needed it, but they were all run out of churches, and I know not every queer person feels comfortable going to a church and asking for help\u201d (quoted from a volunteer). Everyone is welcome to serve and be served, with a specific focus on the needs of queer community members. The community has flourished into a family, and they now have expanded to multiple locations and an outreach program for queer migrants, as well as a partnership with Columbia for a mobile dental clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-placepress-block-map-location alignwide\" aria-label=\"Interactive Map\" role=\"region\"><figure><div class=\"map-pp\" id=\"placepress-map\" data-lat=\"40.7474938\" data-lon=\"-73.8871823\" data-zoom=\"12\" data-basemap=\"carto_voyager\" data-type=\"single-location\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"map-caption-pp\">78-11 Roosevelt Ave, East Elmhurst, NY 11370<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ghost\">By Michelle Lee<br \/>Spreading love throughout the community with the gifts of food and care.<br \/>Campus: City College<br \/>Professor: Susanna Yurick<br \/>Location: 78-11 Roosevelt Ave, East Elmhurst, NY 11370<br \/>References: \u201cLove Wins NYC.\u201d Love Wins NYC, n.d. https:\/\/www.lovewinsnyc.org\/.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love Wins is a local volunteer-run food pantry that operates out of Friend\u2019s Tavern on Roosevelt Avenue. This is the original location where it was started during the pandemic for those in the LGBTQIA+ community that are experiencing food insecurity. There was a gap in distribution centers where, \u201cthere were a lot of food pantries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1385,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","api_coordinates_pp":"40.7474938,-73.8871823","footnotes":""},"tags":[13],"location_types":[17],"class_list":["post-1384","locations","type-locations","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-queens","location_types-location"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/nyfoodatlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/locations\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/nyfoodatlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/locations"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/nyfoodatlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/locations"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/nyfoodatlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/nyfoodatlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/nyfoodatlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/locations\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/nyfoodatlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/locations\/1384\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/nyfoodatlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/nyfoodatlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/nyfoodatlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"location_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/nyfoodatlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_types?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}