STATEN ISLAND, NY — Assemblyman Charles D. Fall joined a community-wide effort that collected enough toys to reach every child at Silver Lake Preschool and Nursery in Clifton.<\/p>\n
The toy drive gathered gifts for all 111 students at the school through contributions from local families, donors across Staten Island, and supporters from outside the borough. Staten Island resident Isabella Mazzaro led the initiative with support from Transformation Fitness.<\/p>\n
Brian \u201cQ\u201d Quinn of the television show Impractical Jokers helped expand the reach of the campaign by promoting it to a national audience, which boosted donations and ensured every child received a gift.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m moved by the generosity shown through this toy drive. Transformation Fitness and everyone who contributed made these children feel seen and supported,\u201d Fall said. \u201cI\u2019m thankful our office could share in that joy, and I look forward to building even more moments of kindness in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mazzaro credited the collaborative effort for the drive\u2019s success.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so incredibly grateful for every single person who donated to our toy drive, from Staten Island and beyond. With the support of our Transformation Fitness family and Assemblyman Charles Fall, we were able to bring holiday joy to 111 children,\u201d Mazzaro said. \u201cI\u2019m especially thankful to my friend Brian \u2018Q\u2019 Quinn from Impractical Jokers for helping spread the word nationally and making this fundraiser such a success. I can\u2019t wait for the next one.”<\/p>\n
Fall said the toy drive demonstrates what the community can accomplish when local businesses, residents, and partners work together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, NY — Assemblyman Charles D. Fall joined a community-wide effort that collected enough toys to reach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-58637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58637","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=58637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}