21-03-2025
Free egg giveaway creates both smiles and frustration, due to limited supply
HARLEM, Manhattan — It created a line that extended down the block, around the corner, and down yet another block, almost to the next avenue and it was like that at all three of the New York City locations where free eggs were handed out on Friday.
It left hundreds of people pleased to have received, for free, something worth anywhere from $8 to $10 or more. It left hundreds more people, however, disappointed, or even angry after the limited supply ran out.
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The giveaway, by FarmerJawn Agriculture, a Philadelphia-based urban farming organization, was at partner locations in three boroughs: Brown Butter Craft Bar and Kitchen in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn; Prince Abou's Butchery in Astoria, Queens; and Africa Kine in Harlem, in Manhattan.
At each location, according to FarmerJawn, they gave out about 100 dozen eggs.
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'We were out here since 5:00 a.m.,' said Annette Nelson. She was one of the first people in line at the Harlem location, which was about a block away from her home.
'Is it worth it?' she continued. 'Absolutely.'
Not everyone felt the same way that she did. It only took about 15 minutes for the entire supply of large to extra large brown eggs to be handed out.
Marta Garcia was at the back of the line, where word hadn't yet spread that the eggs had all been distributed minutes before she'd arrived.
'I need the food for my kids,' she explained. 'I've got three kids, and they like the eggs. The eggs are really expensive in New York, [and] I don't have the money to buy them. Twelve dollars for a dozen, you know?'
She said that if there's another giveaway, she plans to come early. FarmerJawn did a similar giveaway in New York City a month earlier.
FarmerJawn has not yet said if it will repeat the event in April. It has not yet responded to a request from PIX11 News for comment.
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