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
COVID-19
Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a media availability. City Hall. Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Chancellor Richard Carranza sits far left. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.Alex Zimmerman and Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/4/28/21240100/nyc-school-grading-policy-coronavirus] New York City schools will relax normal
Business
Sheepshead Bay. Liena Zagare/BklynerWhile we are seeing a positive trend in data, with deaths, hospitalizations, and critical care cases going down, the aftershocks of this virus are going to linger for quite some time. For millions across the country, COVID has resulted in a loss of income and employment.
Business
When quarantine began, Libby Mattern saw an opportunity to help. As the founder of Course of Trade [https://www.courseoftrade.com/information], a nonprofit that teaches industrial sewing skills to needy New Yorkers, and the production runner of Malia Mills [http://maliamills.com/], she knew the capabilities that Brooklyn’s
Announcements
7-Eleven robbery.CANARSIE – Cops are looking for a man in connection to a gunpoint robbery inside a 7-Eleven last month. On Monday, March 30 at around 12:32 p.m., a man entered a 7-Eleven located at 10504 Flatlands Avenue. He displayed a black firearm and verbally threatened the employee,
COVID-19
Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, April 27, 2020. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Gabriel Sandoval and Jose Martinez, Originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/floyd-bennett-field-on-lockdown-as-mta-bus-parking-lot.html] The MTA has begun using Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field as a makeshift bus storage facility — sealing off a
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Rachel Silberstein/ BklynerThis is one of those moments when you realize you are not in control. You are a child at the top of the Ferris wheel when it stops moving. When it starts swaying you ask your dad, “How do we know it won’t fall?” Our
Announcements
A person getting tested for the coronavirus. (Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)It’s Tuesday! The quarantine is still in effect, but if you are going crazy in your tiny apartments, you can go outside for a walk! Just make sure to wear a face-covering and keep a distance
Business
Off Their Plate [https://offtheirplate.org/] is working to ease the overwhelming burden placed on both restaurant and hospital workers by the coronavirus pandemic, one $10 meal at a time. Started in Boston in mid-March by founder Natalie Guo, the volunteer-run national grassroots organization has been delivering thousands of what
Central Brooklyn
Sky above Kensington, Brooklyn. Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBy Christine Chung, Claudia Irizarry Aponte and Ann Choi, Originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/south-asian-leaders-say-community-covid-toll-undercounted.html] City health officials estimate that 830 New Yorkers of Asian descent have died from coronavirus as of Tuesday, the fewest deaths of any
Education
Mapleton School /P.S. 48. Liena Zagare/BklynerEarlier today, parents, teachers, students, advocates, and elected officials urged the Mayor to cut the bloated middle management and contracts at the Departement of Education (DOE), not on-the-ground services schools desperately need, make sure that all agencies share fairly in the belt-tightening, and
Announcements
Kensington during the pandemic. (Photo via Taslima Akhter, with permission) KENSINGTON/WINDSOR TERRACE – The once vibrant neighborhood filled with chatter and women walking by wearing shalwar kameez with every color in existence, is now a ghost town. People are grieving their loved ones that died [https://twitter.com/ShahanaFromBK/status/