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James Joyce Pub & Eatery in Patchogue will host a Veterans Day fundraiser for an NYPD police officer and his family who were forced out of their home due to a massive sinkhole that severely damaged their property and left their house uninhabitable.
Officer Steven Abrams’ entire backyard in Port Jefferson Station collapsed during the historic storms that wreaked havoc in Suffolk County on Aug. 19. The damage, believed to have been also triggered by an adjacent sump, has left Abrams’ home “unsafe and uninhabitable,” according to a GoFundMe page started on behalf of Abrams, his wife and their two children.
The Abrams Family Fundraiser will take place on Sunday, Nov. 10, from 6-10 p.m. at the Patchogue restaurant, located downtown at 49 South Ocean Ave. Tickets, which include a buffet dinner and drink specials, are $50 if you pay in advance; the price at the door is $60.
To buy tickets for the event, call or text 631.626.7255.
CBS News New York reported in August that Abrams, a combat veteran of the U.S. Army who has served in the NYPD for over a decade, said a July breach of an easement line pipe that runs underground through his yard was the catalyst for the erosion in his yard and left it susceptible to the further damage cause by the storm in August.
Abrams’ basement’s foundation has a crack, and his deck and pool are unstable, according to the same report. The GoFundMe page established for the Abrams family indicates that “neither the [Brookhaven] town nor the insurance company is willing to cover nor compensate for this devastating loss.”
The GoFundMe page has raised $10,925 through 110 donations.
The Abrams family needed to move into “expensive living accommodations as well as pay a mortgage on a home they can’t live in or sell,” according to a flyer for the fundraiser that is posted on James Joyce Pub’s Facebook page.
