Ground
Local help, checked by hand. Food, shelter, and health care in New Rochelle and nearby Westchester.
One of the seven tools of Topsoil Commons. Ground is Layer 0, the body.
First step: pick one listing below and tap Check this listing. The check takes about a minute.
Ground in other places is counted in the table below, and each place was checked the same way.
Ground in numbers
155 listings stand checked across 19 places, counted on October 15, 2026. Every listing was checked on October 15, 2026 and is due a fresh check on November 14, 2026.
| Place | Listings | Checked | Check again |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Rochelle and nearby Westchester | 8 | October 15, 2026 | November 14, 2026 |
| Yonkers, NY | 7 | October 15, 2026 | November 14, 2026 |
| Mount Vernon, NY | 8 | October 15, 2026 | November 14, 2026 |
| Bronx, NY | 9 | October 15, 2026 | November 14, 2026 |
| Harlem, NY | 7 | October 15, 2026 | November 14, 2026 |
| Jersey City, NJ | 7 | October 15, 2026 | November 14, 2026 |
| Newark, NJ | 7 | October 15, 2026 | November 14, 2026 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 10 | October 15, 2026 | November 14, 2026 |
| Boston, MA | 8 | October 15, 2026 | November 14, 2026 |
| Chicago, IL | 8 | October 15, 2026 | November 14, 2026 |
| Houston, TX | 8 | October 15, 2026 | November 14, 2026 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 8 | October 15, 2026 | November 14, 2026 |
| London, UK | 8 | October 15, 2026 | November 14, 2026 |
| Stamford, CT | 9 | October 16, 2026 | November 15, 2026 |
| Bridgeport, CT | 9 | October 16, 2026 | November 15, 2026 |
| Hartford, CT | 9 | October 16, 2026 | November 15, 2026 |
| New Haven, CT | 8 | October 16, 2026 | November 15, 2026 |
| Paterson, NJ | 9 | October 16, 2026 | November 15, 2026 |
| Hempstead, NY | 8 | October 16, 2026 | November 15, 2026 |
| Kind of help | Listings |
|---|---|
| Food | 59 |
| Shelter | 39 |
| Health | 34 |
| Hygiene | 21 |
| Charging | 2 |
How fresh the board is, as one band:
Key: the band runs from the check date, October 15, 2026, to the recheck date, November 14, 2026. The filled part is the share of that span that has passed by today, October 15, 2026. One unit is one day, and the full span is 30 days.
One listing, as a full Proof
Every listing on this board is a Proof. A Proof states what is offered, links to the provider page it came from, names who checked it, and gives the date they checked it.
- Claim
- HOPE Community Services runs a food pantry at 50 Washington Avenue, New Rochelle, open every Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., with registration offered at the distributions.
- Ground
- The provider's own page: hopecommunityservices.org
- Hand
- Ground maintainers
- Check
- Verified October 15, 2026. Check again after November 14, 2026.
- Record
- The listing record and the log of its check are named in the builder record at the bottom of this page.
Verify a listing
You can help in a few minutes. Pick one listing and tap Check this listing on its card. That panel gives the steps on this page: open the provider's own page, see that the offer, the place, and the times still match, and record your check with your name and the date. Your check then shows on the listing, with the date to check again, 30 days later.
The research under this layer: Foundations, Poverty and material security
Unlocks the ability to act at all.
For agents and builders
The record behind the counts and the checks on this page.
How the counts and the checks are recorded
Generated by tools/build_counts.py. The counts come from the seed board entries in listings.json for the board on this page and places/index.json for the other places, both in this repository. Nothing in the counts section is typed by hand.
Each listing in listings.json carries its provider page in its source field, the date it was checked in its verified field, and the date to check again in its expires field, 30 days after the check. The public log of checks is checks.json in this repository: a check adds a row with the checker's name, stage name, or handle, and the new verified and expires dates. Full places record: PLACES.md in this repository. Full steps for checking a listing: the README of this repository, under Verify a listing.
Take away data: listings.json at this site root holds every Ground listing in one file, 155 listings across 19 places, each with its fields, its checked date, its expiry date, and its provider source. tools/build_listings.py builds that file from the seed board entries it keeps and the place files under places/, so the file and this page come from the same data.
The sample Proof on this page is the listing with the record name hope-food-pantry in listings.json, and its check is logged in checks.json.