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Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeAnother day, another briefing. There’s still a coronavirus pandemic, so please continue staying indoors. Today is World Health Day, a day to honor our healthcare workers. Let’s thank them for all they have done. They are truly our heroes. * As of 5:30
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Photo: COPCPBROOKLYN – Young people have been stepping up and volunteering amid the coronavirus pandemic for weeks now. [/youth-volunteers-coronavirus/] Last week, the City Line Ozone Park Civilian Patrol [https://www.facebook.com/copcp2020/] (COPCP) partnered up with the Islamic Society and Muslim Women’s Educational Initiative at Brooklyn College (ISO/MWEI)
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBED STUY – A man is dead after being shot in the stomach early this morning. At around 2:04 a.m., cops arrived at a home on Pulaski Street between Marcy and Nostrand Avenues to find a 48-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The
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Every day at 7 p.m., New Yorkers clap, cheer and bang pots and pans to thank healthcare workers. (Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)Good morning! There’s still a coronavirus pandemic. We hope you had a wonderful weekend, that was hopefully spent staying at home. Here are some
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The City’s Department of Education has expanded its free meals program to include adults. (Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)Good morning! It’s a new day, which means we have new coronavirus numbers. * As of 9:30 a.m., the total number of positive cases is 52,948
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Imam Ahmed Ali (center, standing) at a janazah at the Marlboro Muslim Memorial Cemetery in New Jersey. (Photo via Ali)BROOKLYN – Mohammad Qadeer, 55, loved to make everyone laugh. He loved being surrounded by the ones he adored the most. Last week, he tested positive for the coronavirus. A few
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Data from the NYC Department of Health on positive cases per zip code.Good morning! It’s the second day of April and the number of people testing positive for the coronavirus is increasing. So is the number of deaths. Each of these deaths matters. It was a human life.
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Max Rose. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)STATEN ISLAND – Congressman Max Rose will be deployed to the National Guard today to assist in coronavirus response efforts. Rose, a captain in the Army National Guard, will serve as an Operations Officer in the Staten Island facilities for the upcoming weeks, his office
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Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeIt’s April Fools Day, though there is nothing about the coronavirus that is a joke. Remember to keep staying indoors! * As of 9 a.m., there are 44,915 positive confirmed cases in NYC, with 12,076 in Brooklyn. The total number of confirmed
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Photo: MCPSBROOKLYN – Before the coronavirus pandemic, Muslim Community Patrol and Services (MCPS) [/muslim-community-patrol-services/] prepared and distributed 150 hot meals to the homeless every Friday. Now, they aren’t able to gather as many volunteers and they fear it’s not safe to gather a lot of people in one spot.
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BORO PARK – A man was arrested by the FBI for allegedly coughing on the agents and lying about hoarding ‘scarce medical equipment’ this morning. Baruch Feldheim, 43, allegedly hoarded and sold certain medical supplies like N95 masks to doctors and nurses for extremely high prices. According to the U.S
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Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeGood morning! It’s finally the last day of March. There’s still a coronavirus pandemic, so please continue staying at home. * As of 9:30 a.m., the total number of coronavirus cases in NYC is 40,900 with 932 deaths. In Brooklyn, the