IOn this photo from June 19, 2021, Queens community members line up to receive food from Food Bank for New York City at Deliverance Baptist Church in Cambria Heights, New York.

IOn this photo from June 19, 2021, Queens community members line up to receive food from Food Bank for New York City at Deliverance Baptist Church in Cambria Heights, New York. (Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for Food Bank For New York City/TNS)

The line outside Boston’s American Red Cross Food Pantry on a recent Saturday morning stretched the length of two football fields.

The number of people filing into the red-brick industrial-zone warehouse on some days now exceeds the worst periods of the pandemic economic crisis and in April it had the second highest monthly traffic since it opened in 1982, according to David Andre, the director.

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