{"id":1218,"date":"2022-11-21T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2025-03-13T20:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T20:19:18","slug":"council-member-louis-distributes-hundreds-of-turkeys-to-community-at-plaza-auto-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/2022\/11\/21\/council-member-louis-distributes-hundreds-of-turkeys-to-community-at-plaza-auto-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Member Louis Distributes Hundreds of Turkeys to Community at Plaza Auto Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bundled up against the cold, Council Member Louis and other elected officials came together at Plaza Auto Mall in East Midwood to distribute Thanksgiving turkeys to local residents, nonprofit organizations, and church groups. The Thanksgiving Turkey Harvest Festival, which Plaza Auto Mall organizes every year, was held in partnership with Council Member Farah Louis, the Mayor\u2019s Office of Community Affairs, and the Masbia Soup Kitchen Network.<\/p>\n<p>As Co-Chair of the Brooklyn Delegation, Council Member Louis fought to include $5 Million in food assistance funding in the city\u2019s budget for Fiscal Year 2023. Despite the historic investment, she fears the crisis is far from over. \u201cThe pandemic has begun to recede, but the crisis of food insecurity that it caused isn&#8217;t going anywhere,\u201d said Council Member Farah Louis. \u201cI\u2019m incredibly grateful to Plaza Auto Mall and Masbia Soup Kitchen Network for their hard work towards providing for our community, as well as all the elected officials who partnered with us to make this distribution possible. But we won\u2019t be able to solve this crisis through charity alone. We have to continue to invest in food support and other relief efforts targeted at the hardest hit communities. As we emerge from this pandemic, we have to do so as one, leaving no communities behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more on News 12 Brooklyn (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/hundreds-of-turkeys-handed-out-at-plaza-auto-mall\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>) and see photos on Flickr (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nyccouncil\/albums\/72177720303893414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2022\/11\/fl-turkey-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2022\/11\/fl-turkey-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2022\/11\/fl-turkey-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2022\/11\/fl-turkey-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2022\/11\/fl-turkey-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2022\/11\/fl-turkey-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2022\/11\/fl-turkey-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2022\/11\/fl-turkey-1300x731.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a data-flickr-embed='true' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nyccouncil\/albums\/72177720303893414' title='Council Members Farah Louis and Inna Vernikov Giveaway Turkeys at Plaza Auto Mall by New York City Council, on Flickr'><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52515850595_5edeb9e378_b.jpg' width='800' height='600' alt='Council Members Farah Louis and Inna Vernikov Giveaway Turkeys at Plaza Auto Mall'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bundled up against the cold, Council Member Louis and other elected officials came together at Plaza Auto Mall in East Midwood to distribute Thanksgiving turkeys to local residents, nonprofit organizations, and church groups. The Thanksgiving Turkey Harvest Festival, which Plaza Auto Mall organizes every year, was held in partnership with Council Member Farah Louis, the Mayor\u2019s Office of Community Affairs, and the Masbia Soup Kitchen Network.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/2022\/11\/21\/council-member-louis-distributes-hundreds-of-turkeys-to-community-at-plaza-auto-mall\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}