Half of their volunteers are not able to work, the demand for emergency food has nearly doubled, and one in six food pantries around the city have already closed. That’s why Met Council urgently opened their warehouse on a Sunday to have an emergency food distribution from their Brooklyn food warehouse. With food running out in stores and the wholesale cost of food rising, America’s largest free kosher distributor of food, Met Council on Jewish Poverty, is trying their best to ensure that the neediest New Yorkers are receiving food during this crisis.