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Tredway CEO Will Blodgett and New York Giants offensive lineman Joshua Ezeudu, lent a helping hand in distributing Thanksgiving staples. <\/p>\n
Photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n
In the spirit of giving, affordable housing developer Tredway<\/a> partnered with City Harvest<\/a>, New York City\u2019s first and largest food rescue organization, to distribute more than 500 turkeys and 7,000 pounds of fresh produce \u2014 including sweet potatoes, peppers and lemons \u2014 to families in need at the Sea Park Apartment Community, a three-tower complex in Coney Island, on Nov. 25. The towers are known as Sea Park North, Sea Park East, and Sea Park West.<\/p>\n The Thanksgiving distribution was part of City Harvest and Tredway\u2019s ongoing monthly food program, which provides food-insecure New Yorkers with fresh, nutritious produce. The partnership serves more than 500 households with an average of 5,000 pounds of food each month.<\/p>\n Tredway founder and CEO Will Blodgett told Brooklyn Paper that as an affordable housing developer<\/a>, his focus is on \u201chealthy\u201d housing, including ensuring tenants have access to nutritious food \u2014 not only for the more than 2,000 Sea Park residents living across 816 rent-stabilized apartments, but also at Tredway\u2019s other affordable housing communities. In addition to the Coney Island event, Tredway is hosting turkey distributions at several of its other properties in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Newark, New Jersey, this holiday season.<\/p>\n \u201cEverybody meets over food, and, right now, people are struggling, and I want to make sure that there isn\u2019t anybody who lives in the buildings that we own who\u2019s going to go hungry on Thanksgiving,\u201d Blodgett said. \u201cIt kills me to think that maybe these little kids are going hungry on Thanksgiving. You know, I can sleep well at night in this business, knowing that I\u2019m helping people, and [the distribution event], that\u2019s just a part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n Besides volunteers from Tredway and City Harvest, New York Giants<\/a> offensive lineman Joshua Ezeudu, who wears No. 75, helped distribute the Thanksgiving staples.<\/p>\n Ezeudu, who grew up in Georgia, told Brooklyn Paper that his parents instilled in him the value of helping others.\n<\/p>\n \u201cThe only reason why humans are on this earth is to really help each other. I don\u2019t really view [helping others] as anything big at all, because that\u2019s just what we\u2019re supposed to do,\u201d he said, noting that he loves putting a smile on kids\u2019 faces. \u201cNow that I\u2019m older, I see myself in them. They love all the small details in life that, as we grow older, tend to forget. We have to lead them so they can be better than us.\u201d<\/p>\n Pedro Urbaez, associate director of Program Operations at City Harvest, said the need for food was significant even before the SNAP benefits crisis and inflation<\/a>. According to the organization<\/a>, average monthly visits to NYC food pantries and soup kitchens are up 85% compared with 2019. This year, City Harvest expects to rescue and deliver more than 86 million pounds of food that would otherwise go to waste.<\/p>\n \u201cOur job at City Harvest is to make sure that we bring nutritious food and try to help as many people as we can during these very trying times,\u201d Urbaez told Brooklyn Paper, emphasizing that partnerships with companies like Tredway are essential to support food-insecure New Yorkers. \u201cIt allows us as City Harvest to continue building relationships with people like Tredway to make sure that folks all across the city have food on their table.\u201d<\/p>\n Joshua Lawrence Abada, vice president of Investment at Tredway, told Brooklyn Paper that the company could not ask for a better partner than City Harvest. While Tredway supplied the turkeys \u2014 Blodgett even ordered more after initial stock ran out \u2014 City Harvest provided the produce.<\/p>\n \u201cUp and down the chain, [City Harvest has been] extremely communicative, extremely flexible, extremely creative, and always focused on the impact, which is exactly what we look for in a partner,\u201d Abada said, giving a special shoutout to Urbaez and Kenyatta Skyles, director of Business Partnerships at City Harvest.<\/p>\n \u201cSix months ago, when we first took [Urbaez] here, we walked around all of our different communities in Coney Island and tried to envision what a food distribution could look like together. And six months later, to have this kind of line and this type of impact, really, really awesome. It could not have happened without Pedro,\u201d Abada added. \u201cObviously, [it] takes a village.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tredway CEO Will Blodgett and New York Giants offensive lineman Joshua Ezeudu, lent a helping hand in distributing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":408107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,191626,6292,192298,192299,192300,405,403,4716,50,2295,5226,5225,5228,5227,192301,192302,192303,192304,192305,192306,192307,192308,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,192309],"class_list":{"0":"post-408106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city-harvest","10":"tag-coney-island","11":"tag-food-rescue-organization","12":"tag-joshua-ezeudu","13":"tag-joshua-lawrence-abada","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-giants","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newsletter","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkcity","21":"tag-ny","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-pedro-urbaez","24":"tag-sea-park-apartment-community","25":"tag-sea-park-east","26":"tag-sea-park-north","27":"tag-sea-park-west","28":"tag-thanksgiving-distribution","29":"tag-tredway","30":"tag-turkey-giveaway","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-united-states-of-america","33":"tag-unitedstates","34":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","35":"tag-us","36":"tag-usa","37":"tag-will-blodgett"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tredway_CityHarvest_112525-3.jpg\")
The Tredway team distributed over 500 turkeys to Coney Island families before Thanksgiving. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tredway_CityHarvest_112525-4.jpg\")
The Tredway team distributed over 500 turkeys to Coney Island families before Thanksgiving. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tredway_CityHarvest_112525-1.jpg\")
New York Giants offensive lineman, Joshua Ezeudu, shared that his parents instilled in him the value of helping others. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n