Every day, New York City is supported by the efforts of people trying to make a difference in their communities. WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk is highlighting some of them, recalling them community champions. This week, we turn our sights to City Island. Dan Treiber was born and raised there. He's made it a goal to serve his community in any way he can, whether it's through participating in food and coats drives or making his family's local toy store a hub for gatherings. The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. Dan's Parents House started when my wife, Reina Mia Brill, and I bought my childhood home from my parents. Sort of as a joke, we started selling toys from my attic at the Brooklyn Flea Market, and it was accidentally the most successful thing we've ever done in my whole life. Years of doing the Brooklyn Flea led us to purchase our brick-and-mortar store on City Island. It was always important for me to come back home, and it's considerably more important for me to have a storefront in a town that needs storefronts than being another guy that sells objects in Brooklyn. The storefront, from the get-go, was always important to be a community space and not just a place of commerce. So, especially post-COVID, it made it important for me to have a place where people could get together. We have a handful of parties or book releases every year where people can meet other people. It takes tiny moments of kindness and like open arms that enable people to flourish. It doesn't matter where you came from, what you look like, or what you sound like. I want you to feel comfortable walking into our space so you can learn and experience things with other people. In 2020, was when we really started to engage in direct community action. We started the community fridge, and we put a refrigerator on our property that we got from the South Bronx Mutual Aid. But it's not my fridge, it's the people's fridge. We got together, and we realized that there was a need for food on City Island and decided we can do this ourselves. It's the same thing that happened with like the coat drives. We've only done a couple, but like people said, "Hey, we're going to do this because people are cold and they need warm jackets." People who were looking to do positive things. Things got to do positive things. And so you can do important things on the micro level that have a really big impact. We sell toys, but we also sort of try to be a positive force in the world, and we do our best to be supportive of the community when needed.…