Narcisse on CityFEPs and street co-namings in District 28
Council Member Narcisse thanks Speaker Menin for holding the line on CityFEPs and addresses immigration inequities. She honors street co-naming recipients including John Linder of Linder's Pork Store, volunteer EMT Fred Wilkins, teacher Audrey Duss, and cancer advocate Gianna Gambino, whose family is present.
Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Speaker Menon, for listening when it comes to CityFed and holding the line for real.
I truly believe that folks belong in an apartment, not in shelter.
Shelter should be a transitional process, so thank you for that.
And thank you for all your leadership, your team that responded.
And when I call, because I go crazy when people are calling me.
And answering the inequities is very important at a time, is a challenging time in immigration.
I'm happy for that, too.
And, of course, the street co-naming in my district is so important.
Those are folks that work all their lives.
They need to be recognized.
John Linder ran the legendary Linder's Pork Store on Avenue N for over 60 years.
The same store the father opened back in 1958 and never let the neighbor go without, you know, supporting them.
Never let anyone go hungry.
That's very important.
Fred Wilkins spent almost 40 years answering the call as a volunteer in a Flatland Volunteer Ambulance Corps, training EMTs and saving lives right here in our community.
So thank you.
Aunt Audrey Duss taught at PS91 for 32 years and never stopped giving after her retirement, 50 years volunteering at Downstate Medical Center.
Thousands of hats knit by hands for the kids in the community.
And I want to take a moment with the next one because Gianna Gambino, mom is here.
Her sisters and her friends are here to support.
And I want to say thank you because they took the pain and they transformed it into helping the community with folks that are going through a cancer process.
She was very young, but she never stopped fighting for others.
She understood the mission.
and the vision to help one another.
As a registrar, seeing people suffering with cancer, seeing that young woman doing that, it is amazing.
Never too early to be a leader and a hero.
And it's you.
So well deserved.
And I want to stop right here to say thank you to all my colleagues.
We fought hard for this budget with the speaker and of course, Chair Lee.
Thank you.
Thank you, Councilmember.
Councilmember Hudson, followed by Banks.