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Teddy Car Dealers Awards Music Grant to Bronx House School of Performing Arts

Anne Cohen, director of the Bronx House School for Performing Arts shows off the Teddy Cars Music Matters grant received in February.
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Teddy Cars, a car dealership in Nissans and Volkswagens based on Boston Road in the Bronx, is continuing its monthly commitment, which began in 2020, of awarding $20,000 to various music education programs in the Bronx, as part of the Teddy Cars Bronx Music Grant Program.

 

This month, the recipient is Bronx House School for Performing Arts. Teddy Cars General Manager, Julio Batista, visited Bronx House in December 2019 to see the program in action, first-hand (see the video). “It’s an excellent program,” he said. “At Teddy Cars, we feel strongly about doing things to help the community and help children grow and I can’t think of anything more important than making sure they have the resources to learn and play music.  What could be better?”

 

Anne Cohen is director of Bronx House and expressed her sincere gratitude to Teddy Cars for what she called its “generous gift.” Cohen added, “We look forward to purchasing new instruments for our Tom Freston Instrument Library, ensuring all students enrolled in our music programs have access to a free, high-quality musical instrument.”

Students practice at Bronx House School of Performing Arts.
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After awarding grants to five Bronx recipients last year, the “Music Matters’ program was put on hold because of the pandemic. Last month, the dealership resumed its monthly commitment to five additional music programs, beginning with WHEDco’s (Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation) after school program at P.S./I.S. 218 in Concourse Village. This month it’s Bronx House.

 

Music grants have already been distributed to the Renaissance Youth Center located south of Claremont Village, PS 72 in Throgs Neck, The Bennington Band at P.S. 76 in Allerton, Mosholu Montefiore Community Center in Norwood, and Baychester Academy in Edenwald, as reported.

 

According to its representatives, Teddy Cars was founded on a vision of creating a world-class [car dealership] operation of high volume and high customer satisfaction. They said, owner, Ted Bessen, has pioneered one of the highest-volume dealers in the city’s northeast, and one of the top customer-satisfaction dealers in the State of New York, featuring an extensive line of new and pre-owned vehicles at Teddy Nissan and Teddy Volkswagen.

 

 

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