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Huge thank you as always to for tickets to the game on 8/20! Having a blast!!

Please read! Link: https://www.silive.com/dining/2024/08/a-restaurant-rich-corridor-is-promised-safer-streets.html?utm_campaign=statenislandadvance_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawEwTxNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHaGaT2UZSDtzdiOU_IqnDMpwY2soFihvNCuvmzNwWu78b3COyLuvoVKzEQ_aem_pi23FUt1UB92SQXEtJDF-Q

Huge thank you to and for inviting us to the Stapleton Local NeighborhoodStat event on Saturday 8/17. We distributed over 1,000 units of clementines, tomatoes, strawberries, and other vegetables during the event as well as plants, information, and books!!! Thank you to for helping with a huge tomato donation to supplement what we already had. Looking forward to continuing work with Stapleton Houses and NStat!

Awesome healthy pantry day on 8/18 at Huge thank you to our volunteers who helped give out bags of food which contained: strawberries, blueberries, broccoli, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, eggplant, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, and avocado. We also donated strawberries, blueberries and vegetables to the Forest Avenue Community Fridge. Huge thank you to our wonderful community garden friends at Olivet Presbyterian Church who donated hundreds of tomatoes to us and and Kelly M for always helping us make this a fabulous event! Next pantry is 9/22 at 9am. See you then!

Huge thank you to our amazing volunteers from and SI Tech today 8/18 who braved rain, bugs, and thistle to help out on our “It’s My Park Day” event. Next IMPD is September 22 from 9-11am.

Filling up the Clementine Collective at Midway Deli on 8/18!

Taking care of our planter on Jersey Street as part of the beautification project. Proud to be part of this initiative!

Wonderful time on August 16 facilitating the CORE Community Conversation focussed on the Community Equity Priorities. Thank you to everyone that attended. Huge thank you to for nominating us, Lorenzo Van Ness, the Director of Community Organizing and Engagement at the NYC Commission on Racial Equality for all your support, and and for hosting us! Looking forward to next steps!

Today 8/16! Please email [email protected] or use the link to register. Thank you for the opportunity!

Well said. Posted • When our communities are safer, our local businesses thrive.

On Monday, SIEDC President & CEO Mike Cusick participated in a press conference with local leaders and Rosebank Merchants Association Chair Massimo Felici. The community came together to announce the installation of an NYPD surveillance camera and other new security investments along Bay Street.

With the support of New York State Senator Jessica Scarcella-Spanton, Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon, and the NYPD, these efforts aim to deter crime and ensure a safer environment where businesses can operate, and patrons can enjoy all that the Bay Street commercial corridor has to offer.

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🎉🎉🎉🎉Posted • Huge thank you to the for the article about the food truck situation. Mayor Adams was asked a question about the food truck during his press conference earlier today. You can see the question and his comments between 41:45-43:09. Please keep the signatures going! Details are below!
Petition: https://www.change.org/p/free-summer-meals-food-truck-in-every-borough-including-staten-island-and-queens?utm_medium=custom_url&utm_source=share_petition&recruited_by_id=8b2262c0-ca28-0130-9f1e-3c764e0480c1.
8/13 Press Conference - Mayor Adams (41:45-43:09): Mayor Eric Adams Holds In Person Media Availability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoxpBkGliQQ&t=2519s&pp=2AHXE5ACAQ%3D%3D

SI Advance article: NYC urged to include Staten Island in this free summer meals food truck program: https://www.silive.com/news/2024/08/nyc-urged-to-include-staten-island-in-this-free-summer-meals-food-truck-program.html

you’re the best! It’s not just because you also went to either :-) Stay tuned!

Backpack giveaway happening now 8/11 through 3pm at Westervelt Garden. 143 Westervelt Avenue

Great morning of volunteering today thank you and for supplying all the tools including the cool looking suit to get the work done! Big thank you to Sayde Wilson for checking in and for Helaine Basher for being a fantastic support to our work! Next cleanup event is in September! Stay tuned!

Filling up the Midway deli stand

This Sunday 8/11. Link to register: https://www.nyrp.org/en/get-involved/events/nyrps-back-to-school-backpack-bonanza-westervelt/?fbclid=IwY2xjawEkDBlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHffPy87CUgAJ1ulE2zqn1eReBeNSVzZcCVywhV73GRFzj7flw4xa-NVxNA_aem_vlP__XCQXLeNovqMJed4jg

Proud to participate in an important meeting at about Bay Street safety and revitalization. Thank you to for the invitation. Please join us at the next event which is a Bay Street cleanup and beautification. Meeting place is in front of at 704 Bay Street on Sunday August 11 at 9am. Tools provided, hope to see you there! .gambon

Check out the great things our friends at are doing! Happy hour from 4-7 today 8/9 at - join the initiative! .gambon Profile Link: https://www.instagram.com/sibaystreetandbeyond?igsh=cWh0eWVsMXkyOHgz

Looking forward to participating in a rich discussion about the Bay Street corridor at the “Bay Street and Beyond” info session and happy hour tomorrow at .gambon

Great job Posted • The campaign “No Kid Hungry,” in partnership with New York City Public Schools, has free summer meals food trucks delivering free meals in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn, but not in Staten Island and Queens. The goal of “No Kid Hungry” is to ensure that no child in the city goes hungry. The initiative aims to specifically target areas which historically have a low participation rate in the food-programs at physical locations. According to Feeding America, 1 in 6 children in the U.S. may face hunger. With the presence of these free summer meals food trucks, the goal is to alleviate this burden and provide our children with the necessary nutrition they need to thrive. There are currently food trucks in the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn, but no trucks in Queens and Staten Island. Please, support this petition and take a stand against child hunger in New York City. Sign this petition to ensure a free summer meals food truck in every borough. Link: https://chng.it/tYZpjHkST6

Amazing time at August 6, 2024. Thank you to everyone that came by our table and grabbed a Clementine, or book or gardening set! Great job to the precinct councils, Chief Gulotta and his team and

Always fun filling up little free libraries! Thank you for all the fantastic books! Today’s library - the on Wright!

Thank you ! Link to register: https://www.nyrp.org/en/get-involved/events/nyrps-back-to-school-backpack-bonanza-westervelt/

Monarch butterflies having an awesome time in on Friday August 2! Thank you to for the milkw**d seeds. We also planted butterfly w**d, the native wildflower of NYC and some other fun flowers for monarch butterflies. We recently designated this monarch waystation after - what a fitting tribute that the monarchs are now arriving to this space!

Amazing project! Thank you for inviting us to this project!! Link: https://x.com/nypdstatenislnd/status/1818011406115160198?s=46&t=j4PoHbHQTDWE_NbQ3B6h-Q

Proud to celebrate the Stapleton Houses Community Garden with a gardening day and community opening on Saturday August 3, 2024. Thank you to and for donating funds to get two of the garden beds which are already producing lots of vegetables. Huge thank you to and Paul M for awarding the founding garden members with certificates. We appreciate you and look forward to an amazing gardening season.