FridgeFind helps you find free food nearby, and helps neighbors keep fridges and pantries stocked. No sign-up needed to look around.
East Flatbush, Flatbush & Flatlands
Nostrand Ave Community Fridge
0.2 mi · Open 24 hours · ♿ Step-free
🤲 Needs restockingChurch Ave Neighbor Pantry
0.4 mi · Open Tue/Thu 3–6pm · Closed now
✅ Well stockedUtica Ave Fridge
0.6 mi · Open 24 hours · ♿ Step-free
🕗 Getting lowFlatlands Family Pantry
1.1 mi · Open Mon–Fri 9am–5pm · ♿ Ramp access
✅ Well stockedA full list, if maps are hard to read on your screen.
Nostrand Ave Community Fridge
1204 Nostrand Ave
🤲 Needs restockingChurch Ave Neighbor Pantry
St. Jerome's Church basement
✅ Well stockedUtica Ave Fridge
Outside Utica Ave Laundromat
🕗 Getting lowFlatlands Family Pantry
Flatlands Ave & E 56th St
✅ Well stockedRecent photos from neighbors, so you know what's really there before you go.
Neighbors post what they need. If you can help, bring it by.
Posted near Nostrand Ave Fridge
Need: baby formula
Any brand is okay. Thank you 💛
Posted near Church Ave Pantry
Need: canned soup & rice
For a family of 4.
Posted near Flatlands Family Pantry
Need: winter coats, kids size 8–10
Getting cold soon!
Let neighbors know what would help. Takes less than a minute.
Your neighbors nearby will see this.
Thank you for restocking. A quick note and photo help neighbors trust what's there.
You're keeping the fridge going for your neighbors.
Quick answers, and how to reach us if something's not working right.
Questions, partnership ideas, or something to report? We'd love to hear from you.
🔗 Visit our LinktreeMy parents came to this country in 2014 with almost nothing in their suitcases. They opened a small restaurant in Queens, and no matter how thin things got for us, one thing never changed: if someone walked through that door hungry, they ate. Neighbors. Single moms. People who didn't have anywhere to sleep that night. My parents never made anyone explain themselves, or ask twice, to get a plate of food.
They taught me that dignity and a full stomach aren't two things you choose between. FridgeFind is my way of keeping that same promise — turning "is there enough?" into a question nobody in this city has to ask.
The Flats — East Flatbush, Flatbush, and Flatlands — is home to more than 160,000 neighbors. One in four faces food insecurity here, well above the citywide rate. For every supermarket nearby, there are 21 bodegas.
FridgeFind helps close that gap the way neighbors always have — person to person. Find a fridge or pantry nearby, see what's actually inside before you go, and let neighbors know what's needed. No ID. No forms. No waiting in line.
Every screen leads with warm terracotta and marigold, colors people associate with home, food, and sunlight. Status is never shown with color alone — each one pairs a color, an icon, and a plain-language word, so the app works for neighbors with color blindness or low vision.
Text stays large and sentences stay short, because someone using this on a cracked phone screen, in a hurry, or while translating in their head should never have to squint or re-read.
Tap "Brand & Style Guide" above to see the full color reasoning and voice rules.
The palette is built from the warm half of the color wheel — reds, oranges, and yellows — the tones most associated with comfort, appetite, home, and welcome. A single complementary accent from the opposite side of the wheel (blue-teal) is used sparingly for trust and information, since complementary pairs read as the most naturally harmonious to the eye and, as a bonus, orange/blue is one of the easiest combinations for people with red-green color blindness to tell apart.
Warm side (home, food, welcome): terracotta, marigold, clay
Cool complement (trust, calm): teal — used only for links, info, and secondary actions, never for status
Status colors lean blue-green and rust instead of pure red/green, and always carry an icon + word.
| Color | Meaning we're using it for | Where it shows up |
|---|---|---|
| Terracotta | Warmth, welcome, appetite, energy without alarm | Primary buttons, logo, headers |
| Marigold | Hope, sunlight, abundance, generosity | Secondary buttons, highlights, illustrations |
| Clay (deep brown) | Home, roots, being grounded, stability | Body text, icons, borders |
| Cream | Soft and inviting, never clinical or cold | Backgrounds, cards |
| Teal | Trust, calm, "help is here" — the wheel's complement to orange | Links, info tags, secondary buttons |
Color blindness affects roughly 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women, and red/green is the hardest pair to tell apart. Every status below uses a distinct icon and a plain word, so meaning survives even in grayscale.
Large, plain, and easy on tired eyes. No decorative or thin fonts — everything stays bold enough to read quickly outdoors or on an old phone screen.
Icons are simple, filled, single-color shapes (a fridge, a house, a checkmark, a hand) rather than thin outline icons, so they stay legible at small sizes and don't rely on fine detail.
FridgeFind talks like a neighbor, not an agency. Short sentences. No jargon, no case-management language, no tone of charity or judgment — everyone here is a neighbor helping a neighbor.
East Flatbush faces food insecurity at 25% of residents, well above the citywide rate of 15.4%, with a 6.6 million meal annual gap and one supermarket for every 21 bodegas. FridgeFind starts in East Flatbush, Flatbush, and Flatlands — "The Flats" — with a pop-up pilot on August 28. The design choices above (plain language, large text, icon-plus-color status, a no-phone option) all trace back to who's actually going to stand in front of a fridge and need this to just work.