Nearly 100 inner-city kids, cops and city leaders gathered at the Police Athletic League’s annual holiday party in Harlem on Saturday, where it was gifts, games and glee galore.
The youth nonprofit’s event featured face-painting stations, an inflatable bounce house and a bicycle raffle – as well as speeches by NYC Mayor Eric Adams and newly-minted NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, both of whom asked little girls to stand up and scream, “I can do anything I want to!”
The crowd also celebrated Goya Foods’ donation of 5,000 pounds of food for families in need, as well as a truck full of food gifted by D’Agostino and Gristedes supermarkets.
“All we’re trying to do is save the lives of those kids,” John Catsimatidis, CEO of Gristedes, told The Post.
“It was a wonderful party.”
Outside of the event, Adams told reporters “the net is tightening” on the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killer, who police have been searching for since the cold-blooded assassination in Midtown Wednesday morning.