Brooklyn Paper: ‘It is going to get harder’: Brooklyn food banks prepare for SNAP freeze

By Gabriele Holtermann

Peter Endriss, executive director of CHiPS, a food pantry and community meal provider on 4th Avenue between Park Slope and Gowanus, said the organization was trying to order as much food as possible. 

“But we, being a small organization, are already really at capacity, so we don’t have the ability to take in and hold more food, or the space and staff to distribute it. So we’re going to do our best to try and see what we can stretch at least for the next week,” Endriss said.

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