Announcements
Oranges at the Campaign Against Hunger food pantry in Brooklyn. (Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office)It’s Friday and the first day of May! The birds are chirping outside, but we hope you are staying indoors. Here are some new numbers as of yesterday at 1:30 p.m.
Central Brooklyn
BROOKLYN – Several local organizations have gotten together to launch four food carts that will give out free halal iftar meals to everyone during the month of Ramadan. Usually, for iftar, Muslims would break their fast at dusk inside the masjid. Some would gather around the table at home, but many
Boerum Hill
A rainbow drawing in the window of Jessica Miracola, a Crown Heights resident. Courtesy of Jessica Miracola.What may be the world’s purest movement – thousands of rainbows, drawn by hand and hung in windows for children and adults alike to seek out on their daily walks – is the subject
Central Brooklyn
Last Stop. Liena Zagare/BklynerMTA announced earlier today that it will close the subway system for deep-cleaning every night between 1-5 am starting on May 6th. “During this overnight period, the MTA will intensify disinfecting operations, cleaning its fleet of thousands of cars and buses every night, and further testing
Announcements
Our heroes. (Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office)Good morning! It’s the last day of April. We hope next month will bring you happiness and peace. Here are some new numbers as of 1 p.m. yesterday: * There were 2,152 new confirmed positive coronavirus cases in NYC, compared
COVID-19
Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, April 27, 2020. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Jose Martinez and Gabriel Sandoval, Originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/park-service-vows-to-reopen-floyd-bennett-field-to-gardeners.html] The National Park Service pledged Wednesday to let community gardeners back into Brooklyn’s shuttered [https://thecity.nyc/2020/
Announcements
Funeral of Rabbi Chaim Mertz in Williamsburg. Scott Stein/BklynerWILLIAMSBURG – About 2,500 people gathered on a Williamsburg street last night at a funeral for Rabbi Chaim Mertz who had died from the coronavirus. People were wearing masks, but there was absolutely no social distancing. At around 8 p.m.
Announcements
Ben Schaeffer. (Photo via TWU Local 100)MIDWOOD – Longtime community activist and MTA train conductor Benjamin Schaeffer, who once evacuated a train after someone poured gasoline on the floor of one of the cars, died yesterday from the coronavirus. He was 58. Schaeffer had been on the ventilator at Maimonides
Arts & Culture
Brooklyn Public Library, Courtesy of BPLDuring this unprecedented time, the Brooklyn Public Library [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/] is asking residents to contribute to its local oral history archive, Our Streets, Our Stories [https://ourstreetsourstories.tumblr.com/], by sharing their experiences about living through the COVID-19 pandemic. This pandemic has already
Borough Park
Borough Park parents said a yeshiva was still being run out of a building on 48th Street during the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYBy Reuven Blau and Yoav Gonen, Originally published in THE CITYBrooklyn parents say underground yeshiva classes are flourishing in Borough Park — but cops closed a
COVID-19
Members of the WJP women’s committee sewing face masks. Courtesy of WJP.The Day Laborer Workforce Initiative held a press conference on Tuesday afternoon calling for city, state, and federal officials to grant relief and protection for immigrant workers and the nonprofits that serve them across the city. “Before
Announcements
Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds teams conduct a flyover New York City to honor medical workers. (Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)Happy Wednesday! There are some new numbers and some more deaths, so let’s get right into it. * As of 2 p.m. yesterday, there were