Borough Hall goes gold for childhood cancer
Brooklyn Borough Hall joined the likes of the Coney Island Parachute Jump, the Freedom Tower and all of Bay Ridge on Monday, September 15 as it officially went gold in honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness month.
“When Brooklyn Borough Hall goes gold for childhood cancer awareness, our entire borough will beam with a spirit of solidarity for our young people suffering from this deadly disease,” said Borough President Eric Adams, who used the event to announce legislation he is promoting that would use money raised from vanity license plate sales for research and treatment to help combat the disease. “Awareness is an important part of the fight against childhood cancer, as it reawakens us to the horrors these children and their families must endure and the commitment we must make to funding research that will find a cure.”
The decision to “go gold” – not just for one night, but for the entire week – came on the heels of the Empire State Building’s refusal to participate in New Hampshire resident Tony Stoddard’s Gold World Project, a movement he founded in loving memory of his son, Cole, who passed away at the age of five due to Neuroblastoma.