STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — HGTV star and construction expert Eric Eremita brought his “Home for the Holidays” workshop to Northwell Staten Island University Hospital on Tuesday, spreading holiday cheer to pediatric cancer patients with a hands-on gingerbread-building event.

The “Home for the Holidays” event transformed a hospital room on the Ocean Breeze campus into a festive gingerbread building workshop, giving children in treatment, who can’t be home for the holidays, a chance to relax, create and decorate.

Eremita, who was born and raised on Staten Island, said he created the “Home for the Holidays” workshop as a way to give back to the Staten Island community and bring holiday cheer to children.

“We love giving back to the community, and why not do what we do best — build and design hom

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