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New York City COVID-19 Food Studies

Collected by: New York University

Archived since: Sep, 2020

Description:

New York City COVID-19 Food Studies Web Collection is made of archived websites that detail the impact on COVID-19 on food communities in New York City. It documents the effects of the pandemic on New York University's campuses and their surrounding food communities, their shifts in cultural, economic, and social practices around the city, and their organizing and response efforts, with an intentional focus on Black and Indigenous People of Color, Asian American Pacific Islander, and LGBTQIA+ communities. Food communities documented in the collection consist of food workers, farms and their workers, food non-profits, food vendors, farmers' markets, private and community gardens, alternative food sources, mutual aid networks, community refrigerators and food pantries, restaurants, and soup kitchens. The collection focuses on issues of food justice and food scarcity through a lens of race and class. within NYU's staff and students and in the greater New York City community.

Subject:   Universities & Libraries Society & Culture

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Title: The Street Vendor Project

URL: http://streetvendor.org/

Description: "The Street Vendor Project is a membership-based project with more than 1,800 active vendor members who are working together to create a vendors' movement for permanent change. We reach out to vendors in the streets and storage garages and teach them about their legal rights and responsibilities." This website documents the work of the Street Vendor project, inclusive of their on-going campaigns, reports they've produced detailing the conditions of street vendors' works and lives, and their annual award (the Vendys), and a semi-regularly updated blog which provides more narrative and analysis.

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Title: Black Chef Movement

URL: https://blackchefmovement.org/

Description: "Black Chef Movement supports justice for Black and brown communities through the preparation and distribution of nutritious meals to people fighting for change, whether that is at a protest, at the voting booth, or in healthcare. We provide stipends to underemployed food industry workers and use our platform to uplift the work of Black and brown chefs." This website acts as a foundation for the Black Chef Movement's work: it provides links to ways that individuals can participate in their work through volunteering or donations, and it links to the Black Chef Movement's social media which documents their daily activity. The Black Chef Movement's website includes a calendar that indicates when and where they will be offering free food to on-the-ground activists, movement workers, or anyone in need of a meal.

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Title: Village Alliance List of All Businesses and Operating Status

URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qD-CncncKCvEyyM4Q2avwaUdJkTAShz4UzL9HjaFHXs/edit

Description: This Google sheet lists Greenwich Village businesses that are operating, along with a list of links to their websites.

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Title: My Fastfood Story

URL: https://myfastfoodstory.org/

Description: 32BJ SEIU's page that collects stories from workers across the fast food industry in NYC. The site includes a section that focuses on Chipotle and their history of worker abuses. The website includes photographs, a blog with worker testimonies, and ongoing campaign updates in the form of a news section.

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Title: NYC's Chinatown Through COVID

URL: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/56cc948b3a5d465aadc1c32496af7729/

Description: Part of the Food and COVID-19 NYC Digital Archive and Collection. This website explores some of the challenges uniquely faced by businesses in NYC’s Chinatown during the first nine months of the coronavirus pandemic by Liana Kindler.

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Title: Serving Up Justice Twitter

URL: https://twitter.com/32FastFoodUnion/

Description: Twitter account documenting 32BJ SEIU's fast food restaurant workers.

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Title: The Street Vendor Project Twitter

URL: https://twitter.com/VendorPower/

Description: The Twitter account for the Street Vendor Project provides more regular updates on their day-to-day work, their solidarity with other service industry workers, the work and condition of street vendors during the global pandemic crisis, and actions of street vendors to support individuals facing food scarcity during COVID-19.

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Title: NY Dosa Twitter

URL: https://twitter.com/nydosas/

Description: This is the twitter feed for the NY Dosa cart, ran by Thiru Kumar, in Washington Square Park

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Title: Soul Fire Farm Twitter

URL: https://twitter.com/soulfirefarm/

Description: "Soul Fire Farm is a BIPOC-centered community farm committed to ending racism and injustice in the food system." The Soul Fire Twitter Account documents Soul Fire's daily activities and connections with various food justice communities. It regularly addresses issues of food scarcity, white supremacy and racism in foodways and food systems, labor issues for farmworkers, and food sovereignty.

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Title: Food and COVID-19 NYC Digital Archive and Collection

URL: https://wp.nyu.edu/foodandcovid19/

Description: The Food and COVID-19 NYC Archive is a curated digital collection of materials, photos, personal narratives, menus, media articles and more, began in the spring of 2020 as a NYU food studies graduate seminar class project, and evolved into a space capturing the food experiences of New Yorkers as they navigated the traumas of the COVID-19 pandemic through 2020 and into the spring of 2021. While the ongoing pandemic will affect NYC food for years, this archive documents a full year, from March 2020 through March 2021. Following the ebbs and flows of the pandemic’s intensity, the site captures the landscape of food topically (food insecurity, restaurants, shopping, and at home) as well as chronologically. The project also provides links to other collections and related articles.

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Title: Stockpiling During COVID-19

URL: https://wp.nyu.edu/steinhardtschoolofcultureeducationandhumandevelopment-stockpilingduringcovid/

Description: Part of the Food and COVID-19 NYC Digital Archive and Collection. This website examines stockpiling and other grocery trends that took place during the COVID-19 pandemic by Kayla Nelson.

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Title: What’s For Dinner?

URL: https://wp.nyu.edu/whatsfordinner/

Description: Part of the Food and COVID-19 NYC Digital Archive and Collection. “What’s for Dinner?”, was a personal investigation of COVID-19’s impact on feeding work in New York City by Daisy Zeijlon. This timeline chronicles the weekly meal plans I made from March 21, 2020 - November 20, 2020, intersecting them with important pandemic moments: high and low positive test and death rates, grocery store shortages and phases of reopening, amongst other milestones. This project’s purpose is to demonstrate the ways that the public narrative surrounding COVID-19 in NYC and the private experience of living through it overlap, contrast and interact.

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Title: Black Chef Movement Facebook

URL: https://www.facebook.com/blackchefmovement/

Description: The Facebook page of the Black Chef Movement documents the daily activities of the organization, including when and where they will be set up to feed on-the-ground activists, movement workers, and anyone in need of a meal. It is also where the organization makes calls for volunteer support and where they document via photos and video their actions. The Facebook also highlights Black chefs who are participating in the movement through the use of profiles.

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Title: Heart of Dinner

URL: https://www.heartofdinner.com/

Description: This website documents the efforts of Heart of Dinner, an organization cofounded by Ying Chang and Moonlyn Tsai. Heart of Dinner is an extension of #LOVINGCHINATOWN, launched by Chang and Tsai in response to COVID-19 "to counter the racism and isolation the Asian-American immigrant elderly have been experiencing throughout the pandemic." Heart of Dinner works with restaurant partners to provide meals and care packages to communities members facing food scarcity and isolation as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic. The website includes a short video documentary, photos of community members, calls to action including requests to support the organization's GoFundMe and requests for individuals to send notes and decorate bags for community members.

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URL: https://www.instagram.com/soulfirefarm/

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Title: James Beard Foundation: A Message About COVID-19

URL: https://www.jamesbeard.org/a-message-about-covid-19-and-events-and-programs/

Description: This webpage lists resources and toolkits available to restaurant owners and operators. The page also mentions a newsletter.

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Title: Minetta Creek Collective

URL: https://www.minettacreekcollective.org/

Description: Minetta Creek Collective organization seeks to connect members of the Washington Square Park community with free food, classes, and events, and runs a free farmstand on Wednesdays.

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Title: Soul Fire Farm

URL: https://www.soulfirefarm.org/

Description: "Soul Fire Farm is a BIPOC-centered community farm committed to ending racism and injustice in the food system." The Soul Fire Website acts as a place where the collective shares resources, programming, and more to introduce visitors to the work that they do. It includes videos, linked Google Docs, and an online newsletter.

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URL: https://www.youtube.com/@SoulFireFarm/videos

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Title: Soul Fire Farm Youtube Channel

URL: https://www.youtube.com/c/SoulFireFarm/videos/

Description: The Soul Fire Farm Youtube Channel contains videos from their Liberation on Land series and other videos from the Farm.

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URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAlWPBXv-lg

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