Pol Collecting For Supply Drive
With schools reopening next week, a local lawmaker is holding a school supply drive to help disadvantaged students come to class prepared for the new year.
City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer kicked off his fifth-annual “Back to School Supply Drive” last Friday, Aug. 22. His Sunnyside office and Queens Borough Public Library branches in his district serve as dropoff points for members of the public to bring donations.
All kinds of school supplies are needed and accepted, Van Bramer said, including packets of pens and pencils, backpacks, lunch boxes, binders, looseleaf paper, folders, glue sticks, index cards, protractors, notebooks, graphing paper, rulers, calculators, markers, highlighters, crayons and watercolor paints.
“All supplies will go directly to students in need at local schools within my district,” Van Bramer said in a statement. “Any donation, big or small, will be greatly appreciated.”
Donations may be brought to Van Bramer’s office at 47-01 Queens Blvd. in Sunnyside on weekdays, Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m., and during normal business hours at the following Queens Library branches:
– Broadway, 40-20 Broadway, Astoria;
– Court Square, 25-01 Jackson Ave., Long Island City;
– Long Island City, 37-44 21st St.;
– Sunnyside, 43-06 Greenpoint Ave.; and
– Woodside, 54-22 Skillman Ave.
The drive will conclude on Wednesday, Sept. 10. For more information, call Amanda Nasner of Van Bramer’s office at 1-718-383- 9566, ext. 1, or email anasner@council.nyc.gov.
New York City public schools reopen on Thursday, Sept. 4, while most private or parochial schools open the previous day.
