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Standing with community volunteers, Borough President Adams thanked local businesses,
clergy, and non-profits supporting the borough’s less fortunate at his Thanksgiving turkey distribution
outside Brooklyn Borough Hall; his office dispersed over 1,000 turkeys with accompanying
healthy trimmings, including fresh carrots, green beans, and yams, to more than 125
local food pantries and houses of worship serving Brooklynites in need last holiday season.
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Borough President Adams took in a performance of young Irish
step dancers in the Courtroom of Brooklyn Borough Hall during
a cultural heritage breakfast he held on St. Patrick’s Day.
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With Borough President Adams
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Borough President Adams checked out the finalists in the One Book, One New
York contest — holding his selection, the classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn written
by Williamsburg author Betty Smith — during a visit to Unnameable Books
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in Prospect Heights.
Borough President Adams passed out dreidels to local Jewish youth in Park
Slope Playground, as he lit the menorah for the fifth night of Hanukkah at a
community gathering held in the wake of menorahs being vandalized in Park
Slope and Prospect Heights.
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Borough President Adams, joined by community advocates and civic leaders,
addressed the media in Greenpoint on the feared environmental and public
health harm that may result from the State’s planned implosion of the Kosciuszko
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Bridge.
Borough President Adams held a hijab and a yarmulke as examples of symbols
showcasing Brooklyn’s diversity during a press conference supporting
NYPD Officer Aml Elsokary (right), a resident of Bay Ridge who was the victim
of a hate crime along with her son; Borough President Adams urged the City’s
district attorneys not to allow anyone to plea bargain to a lesser charge if they
have been arrested for a hate crime involving violence.