 Thank you. Thank you. Good to see you all here as we celebrate the moon festival and to my colleagues in government Linda Lee city council member Sandra Ong city council member of Madri Velasquez Velasquez city council member and many of our other partners commissioner Kim Javier Epstein Assembly member Jennifer Raj Kamar. Where's Jennifer? to see you Jennifer Jennifer Raj Kamar assemblywoman and Lily fan the commission of New York State Lick Authority and just all of you It's really good to see you and it's something that Winnie Greco has done year after year holding the moon festival and Just bringing a community together as we unite and fight together to deal with the real issues That's impacting all New York is in general, but specifically to my AAPI community we are Really mobilized around some of the hate crimes that we have witnessed as We continue to not only have a police response But to have an education response This is the first year That we will be teaching AAPI studies in our school system to better educate our young people to the great Contributions of the AAPI community that is so important, but we also want to see you in government When I see you part of my administration, I'm proud to have commissioner Kim who's the first Korean-American to head small business services something that's dear and important to you I'm proud to continue to see The men and women of the AAPI community be part of my administration You have been an ally and friend throughout my entire run for office and time in office We want to now see you as part of the team of Governing this city and I say over and over again. I'm not a new friend to this community. I'm an old friend We've been around each other through many battles and many struggles Now it's our time to make this city a City that appreciates our diversity and everything that we have to offer And so just as this festival is a family way of coming together To give thanks to the new harvest Let it be a symbol to give thanks to the new harvest of our spirit COVID has decimated your community your businesses has decimated Two and a half years our children were not in school We lost many loved ones. It has really made a major impact on our city and in your on your community But this is the new harvest. This is our moon festival. This is our new awakening This is our celebration. And so together as we sit here in the people's house Gracie mansion, I want to say thank you on behalf of all New Yorkers And I want to say thank you for celebrating the moon festival here. Thank you very much We've been doing this for a long time We know that they've been taking a lot of steps In this big wave of emotions Performing the most important roles and actions So our economy and all the hope to create a safer future Thank you very much for your efforts Thank you We want to hear from some of our elected before we do the award presentation We have with us senator John Lou Thank you, mr. Mayor. Great to see everybody here today. What a fantastic Turn out on this beautiful day No better way to celebrate the autumn festival Whether it be zongchujie or chuseok or whatever the harvest festival is named in your culture and language This is a time when we get together for the more difficult season that's coming up, which is winter Thank you to mayor Adams. He has like he says He's not a new friend. He's an old friend of the community And so we thank him for putting this together Happy autumn festival zongchujie quiet Happy chuseok And lastly our senator senator cavinoff I missed my cue, but it's great to be here. I'm Senator brian cavinoff. I'm very proud to represent china town We actually have a lot of events going on today also in honor of this festival But I wanted to be here to welcome all of you to say hello and to thank the mayor for his great support of china town that actually proceeds His time as the mayor who used to come From brooklyn very often and I know he has a lot of friends in this community So we appreciate his continued support as china town rebuilds from the last two years and looks forward to a greater More wonderful future going forward. So thank you all for the opportunity to speak with you and let's have a great day Okay, thank you. Thank you Now we're going to award Give to us this time The So the first award goes to fdny fire fighter mohammed Adele queen all right On behalf of the people of the city of new york Whereas the aapi americans have Long enhanced life in new york and they will continue to play a key role as we take both steps to come back stronger From the pandemic We want to thank our bravest and particularly Mohammed for his life and commitment to the five fighters of this city Eric Adams mayor the city of new york The next awardee would call our professor sen Thank you next awardee We call up stephanie han hua huang The next award we call upon nypd deputy inspector chang yun ha Oh Thank you for next awardee we call upon nypd captain tin may Last but not least we also call upon now patrol patrol borough statin island chief nypd assistant chief So again, thank you all for coming out this food still remaining Enjoy the rest of the day have a great great start of fall