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CONEY COMMUNITY: Council Member Ari Kagan stopped for a selfie with Executive Director Sam Moore while visiting the Coney Island Y’s Community Market, a biweekly free food distribution site.
THE Y AND ITS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PARTNERS DEEPEN IMPACT IN COMMUNITIES
WHAT’S IN A NAME?: Senator Chuck Schumer and Congress Member Carolyn Maloney joined former Assembly Member Joseph Lentol at the Greenpoint Y, where a reception was held to mark the official renaming of the nearby post office in honor of the Assembly Member’s 48 years of service to the community. Post-reception pic with Y staff and Greenpoint Y board members (l to r): Executive Director Kendall Charter, Board Member Frank Carbone, Board Chair Paul Pullo, Former Assemblyman Joe Lentol, YMCA Chief Operating Officer Mel Tse, Board Member Michael Kawochka, and Regional Director of Communications and Fund Development Tatiana Terzuoli.
NEW FRIENDS Council Member Lincoln Restler made some new friends on a visit to the Greenpoint YMCA.
NEW AMERICANS IN THE HOUSE: Students in the Y’s New Americans Initiative eagerly rushed back to inperson classes after a long span of remote learning. In-person classes have resumed at the Chinatown, Flatbush, Flushing, and Harlem Ys.
GOOD TIMES Assembly Member Karines Reyes (with staff member Marillian “Millie” Davila) visited the Y’s Glebe Senior Center to give out goodies, information and COVID Test kits.
HEALTHY NY YMCA: President and CEO Sharon Greenberger joined fellow panelists (NYC COVID-19 Test & Trace Corps Executive Director Ted Long, Chair of the NY State Assembly Health Committee Richard Gottfried, and Chair of the NY State Senate Health Committee Gustavo Rivera) to discuss community health initiatives at City & State’s Healthy New York Summit.
NEXT GEN LEGISLATION: Y teens met at Brooklyn Borough Hall to propose and debate legislation on mental health resources in schools, funding for maintenance of public housing, mobile hygiene services for the unhoused, and more. Debates were presided over by Youth Mayor Ryan La Barrie (right) and other Teens Take the City officers, while elections were held for an incoming slate of youth Mayor, Public Advocate, Comptroller, and Borough Presidents.
OUR VOICES ARE BLACK HISTORY: Former Bronx Supreme Court Justice Hon. Eugene Oliver Jr., Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clarke, Council Member Amanda Farías, Castle Hill Y Executive Director Sharlene Brown, and Castle Hill Y Board members Hon. Fiordaliza Rodriguez and Eliezer Rodriguez came together at the Castle Hill Y to honor Black History Month and the Civil Rights Movement.
HOOPS!: The Northeast Bronx Y hosted City & State’s Political Madness basketball tournament, which featured (l to r) State Senator Jamaal Bailey, Assembly Member Khaleel Anderson, Assembly Member Clyde Vanel, Knicks player Charles Smith, Assembly Member Eddie Gibbs, and Council Members Kevin Riley, Crystal Hudson, and Nantasha Williams.
