St. Joseph House Catholic Worker
A soup kitchen and house of hospitality in Manhattan's East Village. Part of the New York Catholic Worker along with Maryhouse and Peter Maurin Farm.
On the Lokashakti Network since:
Monday, 29 November 1999
Year founded: 1967
Location:
36 East 1st Street New York, New York 10003 United States
A soup kitchen and house of hospitality in Manhattan's East Village. Part of the New York Catholic Worker along with Maryhouse and Peter Maurin Farm.
St. Joseph House was founded in 1967 when Dorothy Day purchased the property to establish a store-front soup kitchen that could also double as a house of hospitality and provide a base from which to publish the Catholic Worker paper. Although Dorothy and the paper both moved to Maryhouse when 55 East Third Street was purchased in the 1970s, St. Joseph House remained where the New York Catholic Worker fed hundreds of gentlemen each day throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Nowadays St. Joseph House offers hospitality to about 15 men and women (though mostly men), and still hosts approximately 100 people a day for soup on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays beginning at 10 am.
Volunteers who wish to help with the soup line are asked to show up at 9:30, and are welcome to stay for lunch at noon. St. Joseph house also offers men's clothing during the week, between 2-4 pm.