An old refrigerator becomes a vital gathering spot after mass shooting in Buffalo
In the fall of 2020, somebody placed an old refrigerator at Jefferson Avenue and Welker Street in Buffalo, N.Y., and plugged it into an outlet in an adjacent building. https://www.facebook.com/buffalocommunityfridge
It became a small source of pandemic relief for families in one of Buffalo’s poorest neighborhoods. Volunteers did their best to keep it stocked with donated groceries. Anybody who needed food was free to raid the fridge, or the cupboard set up beside it.
Now, in the wake of Saturday’s shooting massacre in Buffalo, the fridge has never been more important to the community.
It sits just half a mile or so from the Tops Friendly Markets store where an 18-year-old gunman motivated by anti-Black hatred killed 10 people and wounded three.
Amid their grief, the residents of Masten Park are also faced with a very practical concern now that the store is closed: It was the only place for blocks to buy groceries.
“Do you have soap?” a woman — one of dozens of people still waiting in line as the sun began to set Tuesday — shouted to the volunteers who had been showing up all day at the fridge to hand out food. “Do you have dog food?”
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-05-17/an-old-refrigerator-becomes-a-vital-gathering-spot-after-mass-shooting-in-buffalo
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