Aug 3, 2020 2 min read community

Briefing 8/3: COVID-19 Recovery Clinics, Giving Back With Plants & Filling Out The Census

Don’t forget to fill out your census! (Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.)

It’s Monday and it’s finally August! We hope this month will bring you joy. There’s a storm coming up tonight, so please stay alert and stay safe!

A Jewish man was attacked as he was walking on the street last week in Midwood. Cops are investigating it as a hate crime.
Have you heard of CampComputer? It’s a free, two-week-long virtual education program catering to rising fourth-and fifth-grade students across the city, we wrote.
“Hundreds attended an impromptu rave in Brooklyn Saturday night, as indoor bars and clubs across the city remain closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus,” the Gothamist reported.
An NYC beekeeper is saving beehives during the coronavirus pandemic, NY1 reported.
NYC Health + Hospitals is building COVID-19 recovery clinics in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, Crain’s NY reported.
A Bushwick garden is feeding its neighborhood amid a pandemic,” BK Reader wrote.
A new MTA unit was formed to help dozens of families left behind by COVID-19 deaths, THE CITY reported.
“One-time Seton Hall standout returns to his Brooklyn roots, opens juice bar to offer healthy choices during pandemic,” the Daily News reported.
Two Brooklyn women “started an initiative called planTogether and since April they’ve given hundreds of plants to seniors quarantined at home and to seniors at nearly a dozen nursing facilities in Brooklyn and Queens,” Fox News wrote.
“As many as one in five COVID-19 patients in New York City were at a risky gathering prior to contracting the virus, a top health official said Monday,” the Daily News reported.
“Mayor de Blasio said on Monday that his administration would consider making the popular ‘open restaurants’ plan a year-round addition to the city streetscape, rather than cutting it off at Oct. 31, as is the current plan,” Streetsblog reported.
“Bedford-Stuyvesant residents are urging the city to place more trash cans in their neighborhood, which they claim sees more litter than Brooklyn’s ritzier areas because of a shortage of garbage receptacles,” the Brooklyn Paper wrote.