Last month, 11-year-old Dylan Leder of Lincoln Square was on her way to ballet class when she saw three masked crooks snap the chain on a blue Yamaha MT-O7 2020 parked in front of her apartment.
The criminals took off with the bike and, despite swift action from authorities, police couldn’t catch the perpetrators, or retrieve the bike.
The next day, Leder discovered that the bike belonged to her favorite doorman at the Waterline Square Condominiums on West 61st Street, a 20-year-old named Nazar, who immigrated to the United States from Ukraine as a young kid.
Owning a motorcycle had always been Nazar’s dream. After saving up enough money, Leder’s family said the newlywed, who lives in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, was finally able to fulfill his dream 10 months ago. With better weather around the corner, the hardworking doorman was excited to take “his baby” on the road and to work, but with the bike still missing, he has to rely on his brother for a ride to and from his job in Manhattan.
“[Nazar] loved [the bike] so much, and he was so sad when it was gone,” Leder said. “I knew that I had to do something about it because it wasn’t fair, and it wasn’t okay.”
As it turns out, the young philanthropist with a big heart is no stranger to fundraisers. In 2016, she held a bake sale for the Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center, which raised $1,000 in less than an hour.
“That popped into my head right away, and I was like, ‘That’s a good idea because you could raise a lot of money in a short period of time,’” she said.
Leder soon solicited the help of her friend Catharina Capps, marketing manager at Harry’s Table by Cipriani in Waterline Square Park. The two brainstormed and came up with the idea to create a GoFundMe and hold a bake sale in Waterline Square Park on May 6 to raise money and surprise Nazar with a new bike. Harry’s Table by Cipriani supported their endeavor and didn’t hesitate to donate the baked goods.
Capps, who also…
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