{"id":51291,"date":"2025-11-25T04:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51291\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T04:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:13:06","slug":"nypd-handing-out-over-3000-turkeys-to-needy-families-by-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51291\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD handing out over 3,000 turkeys to needy families by Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/22\/us-news\/its-a-crazy-story-nypd-detective-who-recovered-dads-ring-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The NYPD <\/a>handed out about 100 turkeys and chickens to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/22\/us-news\/aoc-email-seeks-donations-for-turkey-giveaway-but-money-goes-straight-to-her-campaign-coffers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">needy Bronx families <\/a>on Monday evening \u2014 and that\u2019s just a fraction of the thousands expected to be provided by police across the city before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>Officers set up tents outside the 45th Precinct for the day\u2019s turkey giveaway, with personnel from the NYPD and volunteers from the department\u2019s youth group \u201cOptions\u201d pitching in to help out.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD handed out about 100 turkeys and chickens to needy Bronx families on Monday. Ella Morrison<\/p>\n<p>Officers set up tents outside the 45th Precinct for the day\u2019s turkey giveaway. Ella Morrison<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may seem like a simple gesture, but the fact is that for families facing food insecurity, this is really critical to them,\u201d New York City Police Foundation president and CEO Susan L. Birnbaum told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>The turkeys were provided by the police foundation, which <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/18\/sports\/giants-jermaine-eluemunor-is-giving-back-with-200-turkey-donation-to-families-in-need\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">donated more than<\/a> 3,000 for giveaways across the entire city.<\/p>\n<p>And the event at the Bronx station house <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/22\/us-news\/this-li-pizzeria-went-viral-for-its-thanksgiving-pie-with-all-these-trimmings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was also just a sliver of the effort<\/a> \u2014 every precinct across the Big Apple is giving away birds for the holiday in similar events that kicked off last week and will continue through Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of families right now facing food insecurity and the fact that we have the option to be able to provide these resources through the generosity of the donors, to the Police Foundation, and then the NYPD can distribute these turkeys to their community, it\u2019s just a win win for everyone,\u201d Birnbaum said.<\/p>\n<p>3,000 donated turkeys were provided by the police foundation for donations across the city.  Ella Morrison<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s giveaway is just the latest in an effort that\u2019s been underway for years, Birnbaum added.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/15\/us-news\/turkey-population-down-to-lowest-in-40-years-wholesale-prices-soar-40-percent-reports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vital service that keeps families fed<\/a> on the holiday \u2014 it brings local officers and their community face to face every year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people think of the police they think about them as crime fighters, but they\u2019re also community partners,\u201d Birnbaum said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think that that\u2019s a message, that\u2019s a strong message that\u2019s given out right now when people are really, really in need for food this year,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD handed out about 100 turkeys and chickens to needy Bronx families on Monday evening \u2014 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,9,24,55,54,56,103,6967,129,27095,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-51291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-metro","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nypd","15":"tag-thanksgiving","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-turkeys","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51291","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=51291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}