Astoria Community Completes Winter Clothing Drive for Migrants

The Astoria Worker Project, a new initiative from the Consortium for Worker Education, joined with the Astoria Food Pantry and Astoria community to announce the successful completion of a winter 2022 clothing drive for migrant families that recently arrived in New York City.

Since the spring, thousands of migrant families have been arriving regularly at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, most of them Venezuelan families.

“Many of these families have been sent to New York on buses from Texas with the purpose of straining resources in cities run by Democrats,” said Noah Meixler, Director of the Astoria Worker Project. “The use of human beings as political props is simply despicable.”

To welcome migrant families and ensure that they have necessities as the winter approaches, the Astoria Worker Project in collaboration with the Astoria Food Pantry ran a winter clothing drive. Within the first week of announcing the drive, hundreds of articles of clothing, hygiene products, and underwear were dropped off at the Astoria Food Pantry office.

“The generosity of the Western Queens community highlights the warm welcome New Yorkers are extending to our new neighbors,” said Margaret Horning, a member of the Astoria Food Pantry.

While they are no longer accepting donations, the Astoria Worker Project and Astoria Food Pantry are now turning to distributing clothing to the hotels in Western Queens where migrant families are temporarily being housed.