Students in Harlem are ready to get back to class.<\/p>\n
Thanks to the Manhattan borough president\u2019s office gave a huge helping hand to some of those families by holding a \u201cBackpack Bonanza\u201d in Harlem on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Manhattan Borough President Brad Holyman-Sigal and his staff handed out free book bags, pencils and notebooks outside his upper Manhattan office on 125th Street.<\/p>\n
He said the free supplies are an especially big help to many families in the community.<\/p>\n
The event was coordinated with the Harlem nonprofit group called \u201cHit the Books,\u201d which provides after school services to kids in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
The backpacks were donated by the New York Knicks and Spectrum, the parent company of NY1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students in Harlem are ready to get back to class. Thanks to the Manhattan borough president\u2019s office gave…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[203,25,128,67,75,9,24,12,63,380,129,131,130,27,200],"class_list":["post-342485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-education","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-education","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342485","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=342485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}