Lloyd Cornelius Porter
This 49-year-old entrepreneur and actor was greatly loved by his Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn. Lloyd and his wife Hillary owned and operated Bread Stuy, a coffee shop and bakery that was the ingredient that united a community. After closing about a decade ago, the Porters opened another eatery, Bread Love, in the Stuyvesant Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. Although he was a native of California, he was an adopted son of Brooklyn, a pillar of the community who was often referred to as “Mr. Hooper,” a tribute to the grocer from Sesame Street. He, his wife and 11-year-old daughter were preparing to move back to their native California before the coronavirus took Lloyd’s life on May 6 after a monthlong struggle.
