Entire City Comes Together Every Single Night, Cheers Up Hospitalized Children With “Good Night Lights.”

For years Steve Brosnihan has worked as the resident cartoonist at The Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Steve’s whole mission is to cheer up the children who are staying at the hospital with long-term illnesses.

Back in 2010, after saying his final goodbyes to a teenager who was getting released the next morning, Steve had the great idea to tell the patient to wait at the window as Steve left. Once Steve left the hospital, he hopped on his bicycle until he reached a spot up ahead that he had pointed out to the teen.


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Once he reached the spot, he turned around and flashed his bicycle light towards the hospital. Sure enough, the teen saw the flash and flashed his light right back at Steve.

Before he knew it, a tradition had been formed of Steve flashing his lights to say “good night” to the children who were going to bed for the night at the hospital. Every time he flashed his bicycle light, the kids flashed their lights right back.


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Now, seven years later, Steve’s tradition has grown to an entire city joining him in the “Good Night Lights” ritual every night at 8:30pm. There are officially twenty groups that join in every night, varying from restaurants, hotels, the police department, Brown University, and an assisted-living community.

Some of these groups have even installed LED lights on their buildings and large beacons so that the light can be sure to reach the kids at the hospital.


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“It would be very hard not to do this once you start,” Steve told Reader’s Digest. “You do it to represent how much you care for kids and families in hospitals and going through hard times. If you stop, it’s a statement that I’m not caring as much.”

What originally started off as just one man blinking a bicycle light has suddenly become an entire city showing up every night to wish these kids good night and let them know that they are not alone – they actually have the whole city of Providence looking out for them.

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