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City Harvest received a record-breaking 1.6 million pounds of food in 2013. Here, Guardian Angel Founder Curtis Sliwa receives food donations from Rosie Merka at Major World car dealership in Long Island City on Nov. 22.
Daily News readers helped City Harvest reap a record-breaking amount of food last year for its annual drive.
Generous New Yorkers gave at their local schools, drugstores, firehouses and police precincts — with the final tally a whopping 1.6 million pounds.
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The canned and packaged food will be donated to more than 500 community food programs, including food pantries and after-school programs.
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Television host Jenny McCarthy helps Eric Johnson and Daniel Angustia load up the City Harvest truck with donated goods in an event as part of the Daily News Readers Care to Feed the Hungry Food Drive.
“We are delighted with these results, which were made possible by the tremendous efforts of both the Daily News and City Harvest teams as well as numerous partners,” said Jilly Stephens, executive director of City Harvest.
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This year City Harvest saw a 12% increase in donations compared with 2012, when Hurricane Sandy disrupted the annual fall food drive.
That year’s drive raised over 1 million pounds of food, which was distributed to a network of soup kitchens and food pantries around the city, and to emergency dropoff sites following the superstorm that laid waste to large parts of the city.
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In 2013, City Harvest saw a 12% increase in donations compared with 2012, when Hurricane Sandy disrupted the annual fall food drive.
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As always, city schools outdid themselves to be declared the food drive’s top collector.
“I just had a school call me to see if they were the top school this year,” Food Drive manager Jeanne Traugot said Friday. “A lot of schools set a goal of being the top in their borough, and they do this year after year. It’s part of their tradition.”
The gold medal this year will go to Intermediate School 34 in Tottenville, S.I., which collected an astounding 12,500 pounds of food.
The top schools in the other boroughs were:
l United Nations International School in Manhattan with 8,200 pounds.
l Middle School 180 in the Bronx with 8,000 pounds.
l School for Language and Communication Development in Richmond Hill, Queens, with 4,000 pounds.
l Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood, Brooklyn, with 4,000 pounds.
The Daily News Readers Care to Feed the Hungry Food Drive is City Harvest’s largest food drive of the year, and the largest such effort in the city.
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