Nearly 100 inner-city kids, police officers and city leaders gathered for the Police Athletic League's annual holiday party in Harlem on Saturday for an event filled with giveaways, games and fun. It became.
The youth nonprofit's event featured face painting stations, an inflatable bounce house, a bicycle raffle, and speeches from New York City Mayor Eric Adams and newly sworn-in NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. , both called on little girls to stand up and scream. You can do whatever you want! ”
The crowd also celebrated Goya Foods' donation of 5,000 pounds of food to families in need and a truck full of food donated by D'Agostino and Gristedes Supermarkets.
“All we are trying to do is save the lives of these children,” Gristedes CEO John Catsimatidis told the Post.
“It was a great party.”
Outside the event, Adams told reporters that the killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, whom police have been investigating since Wednesday morning's cold-blooded assassination in midtown, “has become a tighter net.” “There is,” he said.
