{"id":284934,"date":"2026-07-02T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/284934\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:35:10","slug":"blood-donors-can-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/284934\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood donors can save lives |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Blood Center is maintaining a blood emergency status for the region, with stocks falling below a two-day supply last week.<\/p>\n<p>O-positive and O-negative always are in high demand, but donations of all blood types are needed to help surgical patients, cancer patients, burn victims, new mothers and their babies and accident victims.<\/p>\n<p>Information is at <a href=\"http:\/\/nybc.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nybc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming drives in nearby neighborhoods include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 5, in the cafeteria at 34-45 202 St. in Bayside;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 NYPD 109th Precinct, noon to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 8, in the muster room at 37-05 Union St. in Flushing;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 St. Fidelis Church, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 12, in the Madonna Room at 123-06 14 Ave. in College Point;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Tangram Mall, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14, in the atrium at 133-33 39 Ave. in Flushing; and<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills, 4 to 10 p.m. on Wednesday, July 15, in the catering hall at 150-05 70 Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Blood Center is maintaining a blood emergency status for the region, with stocks falling below&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-284934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284934","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=284934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}