These cops are toy story heroes to hundreds of city kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Scores of NYPD officers helped collect, arrange and then distribute thousands of toys to city kids in need Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is our annual city-wide sleigh ride that we do every year,\u201d NYPD Assistant Commissioner Alden Foster told The Post. \u201cWe work with community-based organizations throughout the city to identify families who are really in need of a gift for the holidays.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dozens of NYPD officers helped distribute toys with the department\u2019s toy drive in the city Saturday. Tomas E. Gaston for NY Post<\/p>\n
Thousands of donated toys were organized in a de facto warehouse at JFK Airport before they were picked up by flatbed trucks that the NYPD usually uses to transport parade barriers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The trucks then moved slowly from one community location to the next with holiday music playing on a loudspeaker.<\/p>\n
Most of the toys were donated by the First Responders Children\u2019s Foundation, the NYPD Police Foundation and Toys for Tots, an NYPD spokesman said.<\/p>\n
One of the toy drive locations was St. Joseph`s School for the Deaf at 1000 Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx. Tomas E. Gaston for NY Post<\/p>\n
Thousands of toys that were donated by charities were given away by NYPD officers to bring holiday cheer. Tomas E. Gaston for NY Post<\/p>\n
The gifts were then given out by dozens of costumed cops, some dressed as superheroes and Disney characters, at several locations in the Bronx and Manhattan. <\/p>\n
The event is \u201coverwhelming,\u201d Foster said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had one mother come up to me and say she lost her job and this is just an amazing thing that the police department is doing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
President and CEO of First Responders Children\u2019s Foundation Jillian Crane said her group provided about 15,000 toys in its sixth year partnering with the NYPD for the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Children who attended received free toys, officials said. Tomas E. Gaston for NY Post<\/p>\n
The \u201csleigh ride\u201d was carried out by the NYPD\u2019s Community Affairs Bureau using flatbed trucks that usually transport traffic barriers to parades. Tomas E. Gaston for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cThe faces on these children as we drive up with the motorcade, they just look so happy, big smiles,\u201d said Crane, adding that her group sponsors nearly 200 similar events nationwide at the same time. \u201cIt\u2019s just magic. We want to deliver the trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
The toy drive will continue to pre-selected locations in all five boroughs through Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These cops are toy story heroes to hundreds of city kids.\u00a0 Scores of NYPD officers helped collect, arrange…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,3306,12565,57,9,24,63,103,129,131,130,6128,58],"class_list":["post-77852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-charity","tag-christmas","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-toys","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77852","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=77852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}