#11- The team that delivers food, ice cream and joy

06/28/20 • 41 min

This is the story of Stuytown's management team and how they rose to the challenge of providing food to those who needed it the most during the COVID-19 lockdown in NYC. In addition to running the Stuytown pantry - which has delivered over 300,000 lbs at the time of this recording in June 2020 - they also used the residential ice cream truck to deliver over 20, 000 cups of ice cream to health care workers in NYC.
Joining me on this show are, Robert Vazquez-director of lifestyle services and deliverer of joy, happiness and ice cream to over 20 NYC hospitals and their respective healthcare heroes- Meera Mason-Sukhra and Gerald Taggart-both managers in our Design and Construction division who are overseeing the logistics of the Stuy Town Pantry.

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#9 Manoj Dalmia - A race against time

Up, close and personal with Manoj Dalmia - pediatric and adult anesthesiologist from NYC. He is real, honest, passionate and unapologetically himself, but embraces his vulnerability as his dominant strength. In this episode, Manoj shares with us, some of his deepest and most touching experiences from treating COVID patients. I could not help but tear up. He has also meticulously chronicled his daily experiences at the hospital during the lockdown on his FaceBook page. You can read more on his FB page.

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#12 Yuri and Yule - The role of city architects in containing a pandemic

In this episode, I chat with Yuri Birchwood-Fuentes and Yule Lee - NYS architects - about the work they did in setting up COVID-19 testing centers throughout the city during the pandemic. They share the challenges they faced as a team to set up physical locations during the lockdown and the lessons it taught them.
Yuri Birchwood-Fuentes was born and raised in Manhattan. He holds degrees in Architecture from the Irwin S Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union and Masters of Architecture from SUNY Buffalo. Yuri is a registered architect in NYS where he practices and a member of the American Institute of Architects.
Yule Lee is a lifelong New Yorker who is a registered architect with NYS. He has been practicing architecture in New York City for the last 15 years and has worked on several different project types varying in size and complexity.