Business
While some restaurants and cafes have pivoted to a takeout-only model to stay afloat since the governor mandated the closure of non-essential businesses, countless others have closed down indefinitely due to a lack of sales cutting into their already razor-thin margins. Dank [https://www.instagram.com/dank_brooklyn/?hl=en]
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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
community
Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Prospect Heights. Courtesy of John Quaglione. Parishes across Brooklyn and Queens will toll their bells tomorrow to unite all faiths and nationalities in hope, prayer, and remembrance of those who have passed. The initiative, called Bells of Hope, was created by the Most Reverend Nicholas
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Annie Spratt on UnsplashReceiving phone calls from elderly clients who just want to talk is not unusual for community-based organizations like JASA [https://www.jasa.org/]. But the calls these days are more frequent and anxious. Tania Collazo, Director of JASA’s Home-Delivered Meals Program in Queens, recalled
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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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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