Before most of us have had our Saturday morning coffee, Laura Beth Comer, recently named NY1’s New Yorker of the Week, has given her four children breakfast, set up the big coffee kettle outside the Food for Brooklyn pantry she founded at the start of the Pandemic, greeted volunteers and showed them their jobs, unloaded a donation of over 100 bagels from the family car, and maybe even broken down a few boxes.
Meanwhile, her…
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