Torched kitchens and bedrooms are all that remains after a Jackson Heights fire forced 200 families from their homes earlier this month.

"It's completely overwhelming and it's very, very painful," said Andrew Sokolof Diaz, who lived in the building and is the co-founder of the 89th Street Tenants Unidos Association.

The COVID Care Neighbor Network is a band of community volunteers one thousand strong. They launched at the beginning of the pandemic to help vulnerable neighbors.

"This is what Jackson Heights does,” said Dawn Falcone, a co-founder of the mutual aid group. “We support our own. We take care of our neighbors."

In the weeks since the fire, they've helped residents recover some of the paperwork lost, like their birth certificates and other precious items. They've matched 60 displaced families with other families and organizations in an effort to help them get back on their feet.

"It makes their lives easier,” said “Nuala O’Doherty-Naranjo. “And that's what we're trying to do. Just neighbors helping neighbors."

La Jornada provides clothing, toiletries and more outside the building on 34th Avenue. The Flushing nonprofit was already delivering food to some homebound people in the complex before the fire.  Now they're giving everyone in the building two meals a day.

"We told them that we were going to be there until the end,” said Pedro Rodriguez, the executive director of La Jornada. “And the end is when everybody in that place gets an apartment."

Supreme Clientele operates two barbershops in the area. They offered survivors of the fire free haircuts.

"Something as simple grooming can uplift somebody's spirit," said Gustavo “Goose” Montenegro from Supreme Clientele.

"Words can't, you know, be emphasized enough,” Sokolof Diaz said as he reflected his neighbors’ help. “They can't be expressed enough to show our genuine, genuine gratitude."

For continuing to step up for their neighbors in need weeks after the fire, these Jackson Heights volunteers are our New Yorkers of the Week.