The snow and ice may be melting, but residents are concerned that another storm is on its way.<\/p>\n
Thanks to the Bay Ridge Center\u2019s Meals on Wheels program, drivers are making sure that homebound residents have something to eat.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been really, really hectic,\u201d said Angel Pabon, one of the drivers. \u201cWe\u2019ve been running over hills and hills of snow and falling down sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The program serves 600 meals daily to older adults in Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, Gravesend, Coney Island and Dyker Heights.<\/p>\n
With more snow expected, the center doubled up on meals Thursday and Friday so residents have food over the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t know if they\u2019re OK or not,\u201d said Pabon. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of elderly [people] out there that are by themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
The meal delivery is also designed to be a quick wellness check.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe they\u2019re at the hospital or maybe they\u2019re at the doctors, or maybe they\u2019re home and they need help,\u201d said Pabon.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a huge help to residents like Patrick Lam, of Bay Ridge.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would not be able to go out because it\u2019s really too cold,\u201d said Lam.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must get it done!\u201d said Pabon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The snow and ice may be melting, but residents are concerned that another storm is on its way.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,51778,9,24,63,8555,34018],"class_list":["post-147210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-meals-on-wheels","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-snow","tag-snowstorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}