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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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