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COURIER L 14 IFE, APRIL 17-23, 2020
Easter Bunny visits
Gravesend children
stuck in quarantine
HOPPY EASTER: Gravesend children greeted the Easter
Bunny from their front yards. Schneps fi le photo
BY JESSICA PARKS
The Easter Bunny
was spotted hopping
through Gravesend on
April 12, visiting the
neighborhood’s pintsized
residents who were
stuck at home during the
coronavirus pandemic.
“I had this idea a couple
of days ago to do it,”
said Mary Ann DeLuca,
a do-gooder who helped
make the bunny’s house
trip possible. “We’ve got
to do something for the
kids.”
DeLuca and Joe
Paolillo Jr, who both typically
attend Our Lady
of Grace Church in Gravesend,
were motivated
to spread some Easter
cheer, despite the social
distancing guidelines
that halted public gatherings
— including most
religious services.
“I will do anything
for my church,” Paolillo
said. “To do something
nice like this to try to put
a smile on people’s faces
is really the least we can
do at this time.”
The pair — with De-
Luca dressed as Easter’s
furriest candy distributor
— drove through
southern Brooklyn
streets, blaring a horn as
neighborhood children
waved through their
windows, or greeted the
bunny from their front
yards.
This isn’t the fi rst
time Paolillo, who owns
both A&S Fine Foods
and Bake City Bagels in
Gravesend, has given
back to his community
amid the outbreak. During
the pandemic, his
business has been busy
providing hundreds of
meals to fi rst responders,
as well as teaming
up with the New York
Mets to provide meals to
frontline workers at city
hospitals.
“We have been working
really hard — my
family and my crew —
to feed everybody and
to take care of the neighborhood,”
he said.
She has a name.
Her health plan actually
knows it.
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