NY dinner puts wealthy and homeless at same tables
NEW YORK (AP) - Some well-off Manhattan residents paid $100 Friday for the honor of eating a candlelit holiday dinner with homeless people at a church, an intersection of two worlds that left one down-on-his luck man thinking the seemingly impossible.
A woman works on the dessert table prior to a dinner where wealthy New Yorkers will sit down with some of the cityâs homeless at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City, Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. The New York Palace and Waldorf-Astoria hotels provided roasted turkey, buttered mashed potatoes, red velvet cake, pumpkin cheesecake and other delights for about 500 people. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)
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David Garcelon, director of Culinary at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, right, and Jacques Sorci, executive chef at The New York Palace, prepare for the arrival of wealthy New Yorkers eating dinner with homeless people at a gathering at St Bartholomew's Church, Friday, Nov. 28, 2014, in New York. The chefs' hotels provided roasted turkey, buttered mashed potatoes, red velvet cake, pumpkin cheesecake and other delights for around 500 people. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)
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In this photo provided by Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness, some of the culinary staff stand near the dessert table during a holiday dinner served at St. Bartholomewâs Church in New York, Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. Chefs from The New York Palace and The Waldorf-Astoria hotels provided roasted turkey, buttered mashed potatoes, red velvet cake, pumpkin cheesecake and other delights for a dinner where some wealthy New Yorkers got to sit down with some of the cityâs homeless. (AP Photo/Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness, Carolyn Gragano)
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In this photo provided by Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness, waiters in white shirts serve dinner to about 500 people at St. Bartholomewâs Church in New York, Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. Some wealthy Manhattan residents paid $100 each for the honor of eating a candlelit holiday dinner with some of the cityâs homeless. (AP Photo/Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness, Carolyn Gragano)
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