Local councilmember pens resolution to light Empire State Building gold
Responding to calls from advocates from the childhood cancer community, local Councilmember Vincent Gentile is making his call to the Empire State Building to “go gold” official.
On the heels of the 103-story skyscraper’s recent refusal to light gold this September in honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Gentile will introduce a New York City Council Resolution calling on Empire State Realty Trust, owners of the iconic building, to join the nationwide “Go Gold effort,” started by New Hampshire native Tony Stoddard and fought for diligently by Bay Ridge advocates who have also kicked off another effort, “Go Gold Bay Ridge.”
The worldwide initiative, The Gold World Project, was started by Stoddard after losing his five-year-old son Cole to Neuroblastoma, and has been well received by landmarks like The Prudential Center, The Peace Bridge, Niagara Falls and, most recently, Brooklyn’s Coney Island Parachute Jump and the New York City skyline’s Freedom Tower.
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