Midwood Ambulance Honored By BP Adams For Community Service

Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams honored the  Midwood Ambulance Service last week, as part of his new series, Brooklyn’s Community Businesses, which recognizes local businesses with a commitment to their communities.

After touring their main dispatch facility and corporate office in Gravesend on February 7, Adams presented members of the Rapisarda family, who have been operating the business for 59 years since their grandfather Benny started the company out of his home, with a citation recognizing their dedication to serving patients in need throughout the borough. Adams applauded Midwood Ambulance Service as a great enterprise to launch Brooklyn’s Community Businesses.

“Brooklyn’s Community Businesses show that the business of making our borough great can truly be a community affair,” said Adams. “I am excited to celebrate companies big and small, old and new, which are giving back to the borough through their daily operations or other charitable acts. Businesses like Midwood Ambulance Service set a great example for all Brooklynites, and they show that serving others truly pays off.”

Midwood Ambulance Service is the oldest, private family-owned medical transportation business in Brooklyn. They have about 350 employees, all of whom are members of the Teamsters, with emergency medical technicians, paramedics, drivers, dispatchers, and medical directors that serve patients in need 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Midwood Ambulance Service has about 90 vehicles which provide response to hospital discharges, private residence calls, clinical appointments, standby for special events, and city emergencies; they assisted in evacuating Coney Island Hospital during Superstorm Sandy and helped out during recent snowstorms.

Mallory Rapisarda, executive director of marketing and PR for Midwood Ambulance Service said the team was touched by the borough president’s visit.

“As one of the oldest private ambulance companies in the city, we pride ourselves on delivering nothing but the best service to our clients,” she said. “To have the borough president come down and name us as the first of Brooklyn’s Community Businesses really means a lot to us. We pride ourselves on running a family-oriented business the same way we have since our inception in 1956. We are glad to have been able to show the borough president what we do and what it means to us to be there for our community.”

Adams said he looks forward to recognizing and publicizing future additions to the list of Brooklyn’s Community Businesses in the months ahead.