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A testing site on Flushing Avenue. Photo via Liam Quigley. [https://twitter.com/_elkue]Good Morning! It’s another Friday and there’s still a pandemic. Here are some updates for today: * The new numbers are out. There are now 5,151 positive coronavirus cases in NYC, with 29 fatalities.
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Via Governor Cuomo’s office.Updated throughout the day. Good morning! Here’s the latest on Coronavirus. New numbers are expected to come in at 6 p.m.: * Last night, over 7,500 New Yorkers were tested for the coronavirus. And 1,871 new positive cases were found. The total
Business
Brooklyn is rich in small businesses. But small businesses aren’t rich. Coronavirus is threatening the livelihoods of bars and restaurants, which have been shuttered to avoid spreading the virus. But another category of the small businesses that power the Brooklyn economy are personal service businesses like beauty parlors and
Central Brooklyn
Callender takes it all in. Nathan Thompson/BklynerSector D Meeting St. Paul’s Church March 11, 2020. The NCO meetings are smaller groups designed to target more specific areas. The idea is to give residents a chance to connect with officers that actually know a particular neighborhood. This differs from
brownsville
A Kingsbrook ambulance heads toward the hospital after picking up someone from a bus on Nostrand Avenue, March 18, 2020. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYBy Josefa Velasquez, Claudia Irizarry Aponte and Yoav Gonen, originally published in THE CITY on 03/18/2020 [https://thecity.nyc/2020/03/brooklyn-hospitals-planned-shrinkage-paused-to-tackle-virus.html] . A
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Photo by Macau Photo Agency on UnsplashAs of today, if you get quarantined as a result of coronavirus (COVID-19), you will get paid leave for the duration of the quarantine. The Senate today passed S 8091 [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s8091], which takes effect immediately. What does
Big Story
Hassan Iqbal buttoning up his thobe before going to the masjid. (Photo via Avery Leigh White)MIDWOOD/KENSINGTON – Being a cab driver in NYC was never easy. It takes a certain kind of grit to sit in one place for 12 hours a time, seven days a week. Now multiply
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Masbia of Flatbush in 2018. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)FLATBUSH – Many people and organizations have been stepping up [/coronavirus-in-brooklyn-what-you-can-do-to-help/] to help others during the coronavirus pandemic. Take Masbia, a food pantry, and soup kitchen network, [/masbia-food-pantry/] for example. Masbia recently announced that it was increasing the amount of grocery food
Arts & Culture
Businesses across the city are closing their doors as coronavirus spreads, with all non-essential businesses expected to shut down. But bookstores are essential to many of us, and two Latina-owned bookstores in Brooklyn are finding ways to connect with their customers through bike deliveries and their online sales. Cafe con
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Elected officials out in Southern Brooklyn discussing expanding H+H Coney Island capacity to serve the area. In particular – converting the parking lot into makeshift hospital. Via Councilmember Mark Treyger’s office.During this pandemic, there are some local elected officials working day and night to figure out how to
Borough Park
While the rest of the city is shutting down and neighbors are keeping their distance, others are celebrating as if this pandemic is no big deal. > This photo was just sent to me by a Hasidic friend in Brooklyn with a 104 fever. He’s enraged. This was a
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Census 2020 Graphic. Via the U.S. Census Bureau.There’s a pandemic! And this means we are all staying at home (or at least we should be). While you could be cooking, cleaning, or catching up on our coronavirus reporting, [/tag/coronavirus-2020/] you could also be filling out the