BSVAC in Action

Media source gives nod to BSVAC's front line role News12 - The Bronx – April 10, 2020 – featured BSVAC in its metro reporting on the coronavirus: The sound of sirens feels constant these days, serving as a reminder of the EMTs working tirelessly to keep New Yorkers safe. EMTs in the Bed-Stuy Volunteer Ambulance Corps have been working extra hard during the coronavirus pandemic. Antoine Robinson is the son of the late James “Rocky” Robinson who founded the Bed-Stuy Volunteer...

Matt Troutman 4/27/2020 | msn news | Patch NYC That's the message Councilman Robert Cornegy and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams sent Saturday as they delivered much-needed personal protective equipment to the service. Like many frontline coronavirus workers, the corps' volunteers found themselves in need of masks and other protective gear — and quick. “We wanted to make sure to provide those face coverings,” Adams said. “They’re on the ground and it’s so important...

The e-mail was short and joyous:   WE'RE IN BUSINESS BABY!!!!!!!! It was sent on March 17 by Antoine Robinson, President and Director of Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps (BSVAC), to the other three members of BSVAC’s Board of Directors:  Brooklyn architect Walter Maffei, Pastor Vernice Robinson, and lawyer Tamsin Wolf.  It was great news, indeed.  The used ambulance that BSVAC recently purchased can be put in service despite delays at DMV due to the coronavirus....