MIDDLETOWN – Sky Mendoza, the young lady who was paralyzed from the neck down in a horrific car crash in the Bronx in 2018, is back home in Middletown.
Sky’s pregnant stepmother was killed in that tragic car accident.
Some 50 businesses and individuals came together through the coordinated efforts of the Spring Lake Hope Foundation and built her a more than $400,000 fully handicapped accessible home on property donated by the City of Middletown at 52 Broad Street.
At a ribbon cutting event on Thursday, Mayor Joseph DeStefano welcomed Sky, 17, and her father, Orlando Mendoza, back to Middletown.
“This house will be filled with love and will be filled with people to take care of Sky, to help Sky, and for everything that Sky will bring to this neighborhood and this community. Just the outpouring of love to her, to the Mendoza family, and the efforts by all of you, we can’t say enough,” he said.
Fini Development donated the building costs and coordinated the contractors who donated their materials and services.
