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Announcements

Council’s Plans To Help City Survive Coronavirus: Tenant Protections, Hazard Pay, Sick Leave For Contractors, Opening Streets

Mayor Bill de Blasio visited the Brooklyn Navy Yard where local companies are manufacturing thousands of protective hospital gowns to supply the city’s health care workers on Monday, April 6, 2020. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeThe New York City Council will introduce a package of bills tomorrow, April 22,

Bensonhurst

State’s Deadliest Nursing Homes List Omits Hundreds Of Fatalities

Councilmember Mark Treyger.By Josefa Velasquez, Yoav Gonen and Ann Choi. Additional Reporting By Ese Olumhense, Originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/new-yorks-deadliest-nursing-homes-list-omits-many-deaths.html] . An inventory of COVID-19 deaths at New York nursing homes released by the Cuomo administration Friday provides an incomplete picture of how

Central Brooklyn

Two Passengers Die In A Day As Subway Fatalities Rise Amid Ridership Plunge

Train passing.By Jose Martinez, Originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/two-nyc-subway-riders-die-in-day-as-fatalities-rise.html] . A woman died on a Brooklyn subway platform Wednesday after exhibiting what an MTA report describes as “symptoms of COVID-19” — making her the second person to die in the system that morning and

COVID-19

Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund

Across the country, it has become undeniably apparent that the coronavirus pandemic is taking a vastly disproportionate toll on communities of color. Here in New York City, Latinx and Black residents are dying at twice the rate of whites. In Brooklyn, economic, social, and health inequities are deeply rooted along

Central Brooklyn

Hundreds Of Public Hospital Workers Test Positive For COVID-19

Health + Hospitals Kings County ER. Liena Zagare/BklynerBy Greg B. Smith and Yoav Gonen, originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/hundreds-of-nyc-public-hospital-workers-have-covid-19-data.html] More than 900 staffers in the city’s public hospitals have tested positive for COVID-19 as coronavirus has flooded everywhere from emergency rooms to

Announcements

As de Blasio Reduces NYC Education Spending, Some Schools May See Bigger Cuts Than Others

Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a media availability on COVID-19. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.Originally posted on Chalkbeat [https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2020/04/15/nyc-school-cuts-fair-student-funding/?utm_source=republish&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=republish] by Alex Zimmerman on April 15, 2020 Mayor Bill de

Announcements

MTA Promises Families Of Workers Lost To COVID-19 $500K

Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City TransitBy Jose Martinez, Originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/mta-promises-families-of-workers-lost-to-covid-19-500k.html] . After being rocked by 59 worker deaths from coronavirus, the MTA has agreed to provide next of kin with a $500,000 lump-sum payment. That’s 10

Central Brooklyn

NYC’s Teachers Aides Hardest Hit By Coronavirus Deaths

Originally posted on Chalkbeat [https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2020/04/13/nycs-teachers-aides-hardest-hit-by-coronavirus-deaths-new-education-department-figures-show/?utm_source=republish&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=republish] by Christina Veiga on April 13, 2020 After facing mounting pressure to disclose the toll of the coronavirus pandemic on the education department, officials announced Monday

Announcements

An Open Letter to All New Yorkers from the Emergency Department Frontline

This morning NYC Heath+Hospitals shared the following Open Letter to New Yorkers regarding COVID-19 has been signed by over 100 emergency room physicians from hospitals and health systems across the City. Posted here, with most current signers. [https://www.change.org/p/new-yorkers-plea-from-ed-doctors-to-listen-to-covid-19-public-health-advise?recruiter=1073227909&utm_source=share_

Central Brooklyn

NYC Blacks And Hispanics Dying Of COVID-19 At Twice The Rate Of Whites, Asians

Via DOH [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-deaths-race-ethnicity-04082020-1.pdf] .By Yoav Gonen, Ann Choi and Josefa Velasquez, originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/nyc-blacks-and-hispanics-dying-of-covid-19-at-twice-the-rate.html] . Black and Latino city residents have died from coronavirus at twice the rate of white or Asian

Central Brooklyn

Bus Drivers Hardest Hit By Deaths As COVID-19 Devastates MTA

A Brooklyn bus driver covers their face behind the wheel, April 7, 2020. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYBy Jose Martinez, originally published in THE CITY on April 8, 2020 [https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/bus-drivers-hardest-hit-by-deaths-as-covid-19-devastates-mta.html] For 15 years, Ernesto Hernandez drove MTA buses around his home borough of Brooklyn,

Central Brooklyn

With June Regents canceled, here’s how New York schools will decide who graduates

Photo by Brett Jordan on UnsplashOriginally posted on Chalkbeat [https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2020/04/07/with-june-regents-canceled-heres-how-new-york-schools-will-decide-who-graduates/?utm_source=republish&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=republish] by Reema Amin on April 7, 2020 New York students who were set to take one or more Regents exams this