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Food Runner Gets Helping Hand

The owners, employees, and patrons of Simply Pasta and Luke’s Bar and Grill have raised $11,000 to help cover the hospital bills of Julio Velesaca, an uninsured food runner who lost his legs in a subway accident in January. A patron who started a fund-raising website tells City Room, “In this neighborhood, because a lot of rich snotty people live here, there’s a tendency to not think of [food runners]. They aren’t all nameless Latino guys.” [City Room/NYT]

Food Runner Gets Helping Hand