BSE Global, parent of the Nets and Barclays Center, working with the Downtown Brooklyn Neighborhood Alliance’s Thanksgiving food drive, donated and distributed 1,500 pre-made and individually packaged meals to families at five locations across Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon.
The program distributed the meals at local churches in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and Red Hook. It was the latest BSE effort to feed the hungry in the borough. Four times the pandemic struck the city in March, Barclays Center, has been used as a “pop-up” food pantry.
Non-profit agencies helping those food insecure worked with the arena setting up an assembly line for distribution of groceries, fresh produce, shelf-stable pantry items and personal protective equipment.