Brownsville Multiservice Health Center

Harvey Lawrence, executive vice president of the Brownsville Multiservice Health Center, talks about the work the center does in central Brooklyn. BMS, which has been in Brownsville/East New York for more than two decades, provides state-of-the-art health care for some of New York City’s poorest residents, treating 75,000 patients a year. The center focuses on reducing the rates of HIV, asthma, obesity and diabetes. BMS contacted CRE for assistance in defining its mission and applying for grants. Listen here to what Lawrence has to say about BMS and CRE.

Friends of Firefighters

Nancy Carbone, founder and executive director of Friends of Firefighters, talks about her organization’s work with firefighters. Carbone started her organization on Sept. 12, 2001, bringing food and supplies to firehouses while firefighters worked at the World Trade Center site searching for brother firefighters and cleaning up the debris. The organization, located on Columbia Street in Red Hook, provides counseling for firefighters and their families and nontraditional forms of medicine such as acupuncture and massage therapy. Carbone hopes to continue to expand the organization, and has submitted a request for a proposal to take over an empty firehouse on Court Street in Carroll Gardens. Listen here to what she says about working with CRE.

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