Cancer groups want Empire State Building to pay tribute to kids
An effort to use the Empire State Building to honor courageous children with cancer is gaining support from a wide variety of Brooklyn groups and health advocates after the building’s managers did not adhere to requests to authorize the tribute.
Advocates from across the country have requested that the New York landmark be lit in gold in tribute to kids with cancer at least some days in September. It would be part of a nationwide effort to have famous buildings lit up in gold for the kids.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
Camille Orrichio Loccisano, founder of the Francesco Loccisano Memorial Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Bay Ridge that helps children with cancer and their families, took to Facebook to let her feelings be known. On her Facebook page, Orrichio Loccisano wrote, “The Empire State Building may be bigger in size but kids with cancer are bigger in heart, courage and unity.”