A new community fridge for the East Village

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy 

A new community fridge is now in service outside the Sixth Street Community Center between Avenue B and Avenue C. 

One Love Community Fridge, a 501(c)(3) organization, is the sponsor here.

With this arrival, Pastor Will Kroeze of Trinity Lower East Side let us know that the longstanding community fridge outside Trinity on Ninth Street and Avenue B, which had been broken, was dismantled and carted off yesterday. 

As we reported in August, the Trinity LES community fridge needed a new home.

"The Sixth Street Community Center expressed interest and had the most suitable location," Pastor Will told us. "We believe strongly in the kind of mutual aid exemplified by the community fridge model and know how much our neighbors continue to depend on it at all hours of every day, so we continue to support the fridge in its new location and are grateful for those who will now care for this invaluable community resource." 

If you'd like to help support the fridge, you can do so here.

This year, the neighborhood lost the use of the 12th Street and First Avenue East Village Neighbors Community Fridge. The plant-based community fridge outside Overthrow on Bleecker Street near the Bowery had been out of service since last December. Meanwhile, Overthrow is now permanently closed.