On a recent weekday morning, he sold coffee and arepas to fellow delivery workers from Venezuela and Colombia outside a Chick-fil-A across the road from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center arena.

Other New Yorkers have opened their kitchens so migrant women could make arepas to sell.

Conversely, are there some more complicated recipes that arepa aficionados might enjoy working on?

A double unit with kitchen items, including an arepa maker.

“As adults, we can last all day even with just an arepa, but with those kids, how do you tell a child there’s no food?”