A brightly-painted refrigerator hums on a well-trafficked corner of Washington Heights, a neighborhood in northern Manhattan. It’s called the Uptown Fridge, and it serves as a place for people to drop off food they don’t need— and to pick up the food that they do.
The Uptown Fridge was organized by Carolina Cortes, a 19-year-old college student who lives in the neighborhood. "Food is a right, not a privilege," Cortes tells Inside Edition in the video above.
"The uptown fridge is place where people can literally come grab food and drop food off. We want to make this a safe space for people if they need food or want to look out for their neighbor" she says about her community effort.
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