Here is an upbeat article from the Huff Post, December 23 : How New York City Food Trucks Helped Heal Hurricane Sandy Victims . A few excerpts follow:

Connecting the real-time knowledge of City Agencies and FEMA working on the ground, the Mayor’s Fund ultimately funded over 275,000 free hot meals to New Yorkers in the neighborhoods hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy. As many as 32 trucks were dispatched on any given day, serving over 500 meals apiece. Additional food distribution efforts to date, including Thanksgiving meals, exceed 330,000.The impact for families was significant and immediate, as we heard in daily reports and tweets and instagrams and blog posts from the trucks on the ground.”The smile on people’s faces when they get warm food and coffee is priceless,” one said in a Nov 8 report.