The Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers and local entrepreneur Wayne Schneider gave away more than 700 meals at Ross F. Calcagno Homes and Palisade Towers in Yonkers in honor of rapper DMX.
Schneider, who founded luxury car service Precision Concierge with his brother Oren, said that he wanted to remember DMX with the donation as it was something the rapper would have done himself.
DMX, whose real name was Earl Simmons, was born in Mount Vernon but grew up in Yonkers at 80 School Street, which is known as Ross F. Calcagno Homes, one of the locations where the food was donated. DMX died on April 9 at the age of 50. A beloved musical genius, he had five consecutive number one albums.
Boxes of food that included meat, cheese, milk, produce, yogurt and bread were in each box and were donated to families in the two complexes. Each box feeds a family of 4 for about 3 days.
Precision Conciege, known as PCNY, provides luxury car service, private aircrafts, yacht charters, protective and concierge services to numerous high-end clients. Schneider started a charity PCNY in the Streets, which donated over a million meals to the homeless and others in need during the pandemic.
“I want to thank Wayne Schneider and so many others for recognizing the musical genius of DMX and what he meant to Yonkers generally and my residents specifically. He was a legend who we lost too soon,’’ said Wilson Kimball, President and CEO of the Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers.
We hope to feature Wayne Schneider, and all that he has done to feed those in need, in a future story soon.
