Sarah Kerr
Food pantry guests outside of Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Church in University Heights.
A system of pantries and soup kitchens sustains thousands of people, many of them working, in the borough. Lines stretch down blocks. People queue up three hours early.
The largely thankless task of a polling place coordinator differs election to election, but the mission is always the same: helping people commit democracy.
Ballot scanners were reportedly not working at a number of voting locations in the Bronx on Tuesday morning, including polling stations in Co-op City, Claremont, Kingsbridge and Belmont.
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