Special Deliveries: Couple Helps Food Pantry Reach Seniors and the Disabled (Video)

By Christopher Howell

At a time when many people who need help from food pantries cannot leave their homes, an army of volunteers has risen up to help with home deliveries. Among those volunteers are Frank and Maureen Regan. The Queens, N.Y., couple goes door to door in the epicenter of the city’s outbreak.

An estimated 1.4 million New Yorkers rely on food pantries in a good year. That number is no doubt much higher during the coronavirus economic crisis. We asked the Regans to record cellphone videos of their expeditions across the borough.

This video originally appeared in The New York City Lens, a digital publication produced by students in the City Newsroom class at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.