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    Peter Young Shelter

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    CHiPS Soup Kitchen & Women's Shelter

    CHiPS Soup Kitchen & Women's Shelter

    (12 reviews)

    Gowanus, Park Slope

    I was told on the phone they do not accept used clothing because the ladies would not wear them,…read morebut they would accept name brand and new clothing. Another time I was told that they don't have space. So they have space for new, name brand clothing but not for gently used? Doesn't make sense and something about this is really disturbing. Spin it any way you choose but it feels wrong. I donated everything to another pantry in Brooklyn and everything thing, shoes, clothing, bags, coats was gone in 30 minutes. I also had my daughter pack up all her gently used clothing, teaching her to help those in need but she learned another lesson and I will leave it there.

    What an amazing time I had here today helping CHIPS to serve the community..... it was exactly…read morewhere I needed to be today. I absolutely LOVE to help others so this was definitely my kind of party. The staff was very friendly and nice. To be quite honest, I've never even heard of this place before this event but I'm so glad that I know about it now. I will definitely be back in the near future to volunteer again. CHIPS houses 9 young women who must be 21 years old and over and pregnant in their third trimester and allows them to have a place to stay for one year. They must go back to school and participate with in-house activities. CHIPS offers so much more programs as well. I spoke with Denise who is the executive director about the possibility of me coming back to volunteer with my church and she said that it was fine but I would have to participate in a training class which takes place the second Thursday of each month at 9 am and the last Thursday of the month at 6pm. I had a great time volunteering alongside my fellow Yelpers Peter D, William K, Aura B and Steven S. I'm looking forward to more opportunities like this in the future. Special thanks to Peter D for putting this together and allowing us to give back to the community. Life isn't just about receiving but also giving.

    Project Renewal

    Project Renewal

    (3 reviews)

    East Williamsburg, Bushwick

    I'm also having a hard time with project renewal. Got my voucher, found an apartment (on my own),…read moreall paperwork is done, but after 2 months I am still waiting for my move out date. Why? Everything reviewed by Mr. P is 100 percent correct. I'm trying to get out too!

    Outside Private Contractor Project Renewal runs the Shelter. They are not DHS workers. Their staff…read moreis disrespectful. Especially the females. This is a bad thing. They don't belong in a men's shelter. The food is horrible. Although this is suppose to be a new shelter, they have removed fans, air conditioning, and the water fountain serves up warm water. So when the hot weather comes, people are going to suffer. In the bathrooms, there is no soap to wash your hands, no paper towels to dry your hand, and they removed all of the shower heads so when you try take a shower, it just comes from the overhead pipes. They are also legal thieves. What they do like most Private Contractors is extract taxpayer money from The City, provide little or no services, and then take credit for something that they don't do. For example, you are homeless with no assets. You go meet your case worker where they tell you, You need documentation. Then they tell you to go to HRA to open a case. After that, all they do from that first encounter, they just monitor what you are doing. Once you get the documents that you need, you are on your own. There are no programs to put you in housing nor do they provide program assistance to get you out of the homeless system. To give you an idea how much Project Renewal makes in a month, the City pays about 1500 a bed. Times that by 177 beds equals $265,500 a MONTH. This is just from 1 Shelter. This should give an idea how broken the system is, and how thievery comes into play here. They also don't allow food from the outside to eat in the cafeteria. Stay away if you can. I am trying to get out of here.

    The Bowery Mission

    The Bowery Mission

    (36 reviews)

    Lower East Side

    Very respectable here ! Very clean and honest people working here! They have 3 feeding times listed…read moreand dinner is at 5:30 pm , they have table seating inside ..

    But for the grace of God go any of us. The blood red doors, blood red, it's said, for a reason…read more The firm I joined early two years back now volunteers. That meant a great deal to me but I never had found the time to go. Today I found that time. One reason I went was in direct response to the SNAP benefits cruel debacle. This, I thought was better than marching - walking beside and offering a helping hand. Mercy, empathy and compassion are the marrow in the national spine - the international backbone. What was to have been an act of personal protest morphed into something unexpectedly different. We've become an outwardly more calloused land of late, where selfishness and insensitivity are worn like badges of honor. They're not; they're a stain on our image to the world - worse: to ourselves. I didn't do much day except hand out chips and offer supportive subtle enthusiasm. No one will remember me nor should they - I was fortunate enough to arrive and depart as a day tripper. But it's the faces that haunted me. You never knew what lead each man and woman there or what their fate would ultimately be. Yet here we were. Crossing fates in the same hall. And there was this unspeakably overwhelming sense as nearly two hundred hungry souls filed by us as we doled out chips and hot dogs and apples that we the dilettantes were happy to do. I felt we stood at the edge of a vast sea of unknowable suffering - that our few hours were a drop of living kindness, as the Buddhists call it, in this sea that's always threatened to drown the world. I can't put my finger on this sense of today except to say I'll return to learn perhaps a greater understanding. And the staff. They reminded me of that humbled awe I felt for 9/11 and covid first responders. I may not change a single life for the better except mine handing out child but I know that offering a helping hand to those struggling in need is what defines humanity and defies inhumanity. I'm grateful I experienced this. And even catching the glimpse of so many as they passed was a bracing wake up call to what's really going on. Thank you.

    Peter Young Shelter - homelessshelters - Updated May 2026

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