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4 COURIER LIFE, MAY 1-7, 2020
BROOKLYNITES COME
Companies help protect frontline
Brooklyn food pantries recived a massive donations of fruit from
Red Hook Container Terminal and City Harvest. Pexels
Distributor donates 20,000
pineapples to food pantries
BY ROSE ADAMS
A Red Hook marine terminal
and a Queens food
importer have teamed up to
donate 20,000 pineapples to
Brooklyn community groups
and food pantries.
“We were talking about
what was going on with the
coronavirus and people being
unemployed, and tried to
fi gure out what we could do
to help,” said Mike Stamatis,
the president of the Red Hook
Container Terminal, which
imports much of the city’s
produce. “It’s just been a way
for us to support the local
community that’s really always
been a supporter of us.”
The Red Hook Container
Terminal received two shipping
containers full of Costa
Rica pineapples the week before
Easter, and worked with
elected offi cials and food rescue
organizations to donate
the fresh produce to residents
in Red Hook, Gowanus,
and Sunset Park.
City Harvest, which distributed
the bulk of the donations,
said the tropical fruit
was a special treat for many
food pantries, which tend to
receive mostly canned food
or shelf-stable grains.
“The pineapple is a very
unique item that the agencies
don’t get to see a lot,”
said food sourcing coordinator
Saul Puche, who said the
non-profi t distributed more
than 48,000 pounds of pineapples.
“The shipping containers
themselves are so
tall they don’t fi t in the warehouse
doors.”
City Harvest gave the
pineapples to the Sunset Park
Corps, Holding Hands Ministries,
the Center for Family
Life, Movement of Pentecostal
Christian Church, and
Park Slope Christian Health
Inc. — which diversifi ed the
food pantries’ shelves.
“I’d say we get pineapples
once a year,” said Joel Matos,
the president of the Sunset
Park food pantry, Holding
Hands Ministries.
The donation comes as
food pantries across the city
see an unprecedented spike
in demand.
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