At 9:30 every night of the week, more than 60 day laborers wait on a street corner in Jackson Heights, Queens, for Jorge Munoz to bring their dinner.

Munoz started feeding the workers four years ago after he saw them on the street.

"They are standing in the street looking for jobs, but at night they are sleeping outside," says Munoz. "And I said, 'What do you do for eat?' [They responded,] 'No, we don't have work we don't got the money to buy something to eat.'"

While Munoz is at work driving a school bus, his mother and friends start cooking in his home every afternoon. Three restaurants supply much of the food, ranging from soup to pasta to chicken and rice. The rest comes through donations or from money out of his own pocket. His sister, Luz Munoz, goes with him to hand out the meals.

"When they receive the food they say, 'Thank you,'" says Luz Munoz. "Especially to my brother, 'Thank you, Colombia.' Because that's the way they call my brother, 'Colombia,' because we are from Colombia. And sometimes they say, 'OK, this is my first meal of the day,' or, 'My first meal since you gave me the meal last night.'

On days when Jorge Munoz is not working, he delivers breakfast as well.

"It's not an obligation. He just likes to do it," says Luz Munoz. "And if he didn't do it, I know he feels guilty, like 'They are waiting for me and I am not there.'"

In recent months, Jorge Munoz says he's seen more workers than ever without jobs. One Saturday, he says he fed 92 people.

Jorge Luis Hernandez, a day laborer, is one of them.

"He is a good person who helps out other people who don't have anything to eat because there are people who don't have anything," says Hernandez.

The day laborers start lining up for food as early as 9 p.m., often since they have no other place to go for a meal.

"I don't know, we would go somewhere else. I don't know, maybe we wouldn't eat," says Hernandez.

Munoz stores the donated food and supplies in his own home, but wants to eventually serve his meals indoors.

"Get a house around Jackson Heights where I can take these guys and say, 'OK, sit down and eat like regular human beings in the winter and the summer.' Because in the winter, it's snowing and they're eating standing right there."

So, for feeding the hungry, and for giving them something they can count on everyday, Jorge Munoz is our New Yorker of the Week.

For more information on Munoz's program, visit www.anangelinqueens.org

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