{"id":93,"date":"2025-11-25T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/?p=93"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:30:16","slug":"qns-schulman-met-council-on-jewish-poverty-provide-250-turkeys-to-healthcare-workers-at-jamaica-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/2025\/11\/25\/qns-schulman-met-council-on-jewish-poverty-provide-250-turkeys-to-healthcare-workers-at-jamaica-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"QNS &#8211; Schulman, Met Council on Jewish Poverty provide 250 turkeys to healthcare workers at Jamaica Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><mark style=\"background-color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">By Shane O&#8217;Brien<\/mark><\/p>\n<p>Council Member Lynn Schulman teamed up with the Met Council on Jewish Poverty to provide over 250 turkeys to healthcare workers at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center last week.<\/p>\n<p>Schulman and the Met Council provided more than 250 turkeys and all the Thanksgiving fixings to Jamaica Hospital staff on Friday, Nov. 21, including nurses and first responders such as EMTs and paramedics.<\/p>\n<p>Schulman said the event helps support frontline workers at a time when rising costs are putting more pressure on working families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur healthcare heroes have carried this city through crisis after crisis, and they deserve our full support \u2014 especially during the holidays,\u201d Schulman said in a statement. \u201cAs rising grocery costs put even more pressure on New York\u2019s working families, Met Council stepped up to ensure the people who care for us every day can bring a Thanksgiving meal home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Cyperstein, managing director of Legal &amp; External Affairs at Met Council, said Friday\u2019s turkey drive will allow healthcare workers at Jamaica Hospital to celebrate Thanksgiving \u201cwith dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re proud to partner with Council Member Lynn Schulman and community leaders across New York City to make sure our first responders and families can celebrate Thanksgiving with dignity,\u201d Cyperstein said.<\/p>\n<p>He also praised the Sol Goldman Charitable Trust for helping the Met Council to restore its warehouses during a time of \u201curgent need,\u201d allowing the Met Council to deliver holiday meals to healthcare workers.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Flanz, president and CEO of Jamaica Hospital, praised Schulman and Met Council for providing Thanksgiving meals to staff at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur staff works tirelessly to keep this community healthy, and support like this reminds them that their service is valued,\u201d Flanz said.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shane O&#8217;Brien<\/p>\n<p>Council Member Lynn Schulman teamed up with the Met Council on Jewish Poverty to provide over 250 turkeys to healthcare workers at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center last week.<\/p>\n<p>Schulman and the Met Council provided more than 250 turkeys and all the Thanksgiving fixings to Jamaica Hospital staff on Friday, Nov. 21, including nurses and first responders such as EMTs and paramedics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/2025\/11\/25\/qns-schulman-met-council-on-jewish-poverty-provide-250-turkeys-to-healthcare-workers-at-jamaica-hospital\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}