The owner of Jamaican restaurant in Queens is determined to come back better than ever after a fire destroyed the popular family restaurant.
"When I got back the following Wednesday, the first place I came was here," Campbell said."With the temperature in the community right now with everything that's going on, we just wanted to show our solidarity, brotherhood to show local businesses coming together," volunteer William Daniel said.
"In the beginning it was just a table in there and I got wood and built it myself," he said."I was running down the street, offering people chicken, offering the sauce because I knew what I had," Campbell said.Campbell says he didn't have insurance, but the outlook is positive. He says the community is behind him."If I can get the material, I can rebuild it in three months," Campbell said. "I'm just a family guy trying to make it.
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