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NYC Great Movers team wearing face masks. Courtesy of NYC Great Movers.Moving house is a strenuous, logistically complex process under the best of circumstances, often requiring the help of total strangers. Add a pandemic to the mix, and moving takes on a host of new risks and implications, from
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Photo by Erica Sherman/BklynerThe holidays are about connecting. From services, where dozens pray side-by-side and touch their siddur, or prayer book, to a roving Torah before pressing it to their lips, to the meals, where fellow diners rip hunks off of the same loaf of challah with their hands,
COVID-19
Nydia Velázquez. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BROOKLYN – Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez confirmed that she was diagnosed with ‘presumed coronavirus infection’ and is isolating herself in her home. “In the wee hours of Sunday morning, I began to feel under the weather. I developed the abrupt onset of muscle aches, fevers, nasal
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New York City’s emergency food programs are being hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, with approximately 32% already closed, according to Food Bank for NYC. Caught between a skyrocketing demand for meals as hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are laid off, and rising prices and operating difficulties, many
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Central and Southern Brooklyn have Brooklyn’s highest shares of patients testing positive for the coronavirus, new data released by the NYC Department of Health shows. All Brooklyn neighborhoods had at least 30% of patients testing positive, and only Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge had less than 41%. We and other
Business
On Thursday of last week, Greg Baxtrom and Max Katzenberg, the owners and operators of Brooklyn’s Olmsted [http://olmstednyc.com] and Maison Yaki [http://maisonyaki.com], saw an urgent need. Sales tax for restaurants was due the next day, and with the mandatory closures, many would be forced to
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NYC School lunch. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.By Greg B. Smith, Originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/03/plan-in-works-to-expand-free-nyc-school-meals-to-adults.html] . Mayor Bill de Blasio is considering handing out free meals to adults for the asking after his plan to supply students with breakfast, lunch and
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Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a media availability on COVID-19. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.Originally posted on Chalkbeat [https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2020/03/26/internet-service-providers-blocked-nyc-families-with-unpaid-bills-from-its-remote-learning-deals-de-blasio-plans-to-crack-down/?utm_source=republish&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=republish] by Reema Amin on March 26, 2020 Two New York
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerCROWN HEIGHTS – A 21-year-old is dead and cops are investigating it as a homicide. On Thursday, March 26 at around 4:35 p.m., cops found Kiara Guadalupe, a Manhattan resident, unconscious and unresponsive inside the bedroom of an apartment in 250 Crowne Street. She was pronounced
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New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. (Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNER)By Reuven Blau, originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/03/home-birth-in-demand-as-hospitals-ban-partners-from-delivery.html] . When Hannah Mermelstein heard that NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital was no longer allowing partners into child birthing rooms because of the coronavirus, she cried all
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Volunteers before the coronavirus, when they were allowed to touch one another. (Photo via MAS Youth Center)BROOKLYN – As the coronavirus continues to spread, young volunteers are stepping up to do their part in helping their communities. As of 10 a.m., [/briefing-3-26-coronavirus/] the total amount of positive cases in
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Removed basketball hoop at St. Andrew’s Playground on the corner of Atlantic Ave. and Kingston Ave. Curtis Brodner/BklynerMayor De Blasio announced the removal of hoops from 80 basketball courts that have consistently failed to follow directive not to engage in team sports during Coronavirus. “Overwhelmingly, we are seeing