Grand Street restaurants and North Brooklyn non-profits who stepped up during a pandemic.
Hospital staff at Brooklyn Methodist with food supplied by Masa Empanadas.
The COVID pandemic has hit small businesses in NYC especially hard, closing all “non-essentials” and creating enormous obstacles for small businesses to make ends meet.
That’s why we’re shining a light our businesses that have gone above and beyond to watch out for others during this especially challenging time. Almost as soon as the pandemic began, many of our businesses began working overtime to feed hospital workers, even when it’s been a struggle to keep their own doors open.
After only opening in January, Rome to Brooklyn kicked off the good will immediately with pizza donations to ICU workers at New York Presbyterian Lower-Manhattan Hospital. The Sandwich Shop followed shortly with a donation of over 300 sandwich meals to SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Dar 525, Masa Empanadas, Red Table Catering, and Taco Edition have since joined in providing ongoing meals to various hospital workers free of charge.
Our local not for profits have also stepped up in enormous ways. North Brooklyn Angels has additionally been providing hospitals with food donations and was recently provided a $25,000 after Mario Salerno of Salerno Autobody Shop (451 Lorimer St) appeared on The Ellen Show.
While acknowledging the generosity of these businesses, there are many others that haven’t been able to keep their doors open, but would also quickly help if able—which is why it’s so important to keep neighborhood businesses alive right now so we can have our community intact once this is over. You can support them by purchasing gift cards, supporting GoFundMe, and ordering takeout if they are open.
We’d like to thank all of our local businesses, workers, community members and organizations who have stayed in this fight and kept our neighborhood as strong as ever. See how you can support your favorite Grand Street business here and see a list of businesses open currently.