Bread, diapers and hope: how Trinity church feeds New York’s hungry

US families queue for groceries, hot meals and baby supplies as demand at Trinity's Compassion Market soars

On a chilly morning in Lower Manhattan this month, the line outside Trinity Commons, a modern extension of New York's historic Trinity church, stretched on past the end of the block.

Hundreds of people were standing in the 44F cold, many with young children, waiting to get their turn for the Compassion Market food bank.