3/19/2012

Nanny Bloomberg Bans Food Donations To Homeless Shelters

Posted by Brian

No Kugel for you! 
Mike’s homeless-gift ban
By JEFF STIER
Last Updated: 12:08 AM, March 19, 2012 
Posted: 10:43 PM, March 18, 2012



So much for serving the homeless.
The Bloomberg administration is now taking the term “food police” to new depths, blocking food donations to all government-run facilities that serve the city’s homeless.

In conjunction with a mayoral task force and the Health Department, the Department of Homeless Services recently started enforcing new nutritional rules for food served at city shelters. Since DHS can’t assess the nutritional content of donated food, shelters have to turn away good Samaritans.

For over a decade, Glenn Richter and his wife, Lenore, have led a team of food-delivery volunteers from Ohab Zedek, the Upper West Side Orthodox congregation.

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