The annual NYPD Sleigh Ride made a stop in Concourse Village on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Neighbors waited in line to meet the officers dressed as superheroes and princesses and pick up gifts for the holidays.<\/p>\n
“It feels good. My kids are happy. I\u2019m happy,” said Felicia Mensah.<\/p>\n
The mother of four said she was worried she wouldn’t be able to afford gifts for her kids this year. <\/p>\n
“Without this, I don’t know what I would have done to get presents for my kids. It’s hard,” she said. <\/p>\n
NYPD Assistant Commissioner Alden Foster said each stop is an opportunity to strengthen connections with neighbors.<\/p>\n
“Every location that we’ve hit is a community-based organization that we work with\u2026So when we talk about public safety as a shared responsibility, this sleigh ride is a perfect example of us working with the community,” he said.<\/p>\n
NYPD told News 12 the sleigh ride has several stops scheduled over the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual NYPD Sleigh Ride made a stop in Concourse Village on Saturday. Neighbors waited in line to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,103,23394,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-76947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police-officer","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76947","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=76947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}