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Manhattan weekly newsletter (4/12)
B.P. Brewer in the News:
April 3-9
Thursday, April 8
- ABC7, Effort underway to give WWI’s Harlem Hellfighters the recognition they deserve
- Patch by Nick Garber, Harlem Hellfighters, WWI Heroes, Could Get Congressional Honor
- I Love the Upper West Side by Mike Mishkin, Central Park Conservancy Pushes for Wollman Rink Control, Shares Proposal with Public
- New York Post by David Meyer, Citi Bike set to become world’s biggest bike-share outside of China
- West Side
COVID Weekly newsletter (4/8)
- 127,213 cumulative confirmed cases (+3,850 since last week)
- 4,258 cumulative deaths (+49 since last week)
- 2.5% seven-day positivity average (down from 2.9% last week)
- 237,441 adults (17%)
A day in the life: BP Brewer visits vaccine sites
Manhattan weekly newsletter (4/5)
B.P. Brewer in the News:
March 27 – April 2
Friday, April 2
- The City by Josefa Velasquez and Rachel Holliday Smith, Embattled Cuomo Pushes Skyline-Altering Penn Station Real Estate Plan as Critics Mobilize
- Manhattan Times News by Gregg McQueen, Covid oral history project focuses on communities of color
- Streetsblog NYC by Gersh Kuntzman, Open Streets Coalition to Mayor: Give Us a Real Program (And Some Help)!
- AMNY by Carsen Holaday, Questions swirl at
COVID weekly newsletter (4/1)
- 123,363 cumulative confirmed cases (+4,377 since last week)
- 4,209 cumulative deaths (+63 since last week)
- 3% seven-day positivity average (up from 2.7% last week)
- 223,473 adults (16%)
Manhattan weekly newsletter (3/29)
Friends,
Below is a round-up of events and announcements for Manhattan. Check your inbox Thursday for more COVID updates. (If you’re not yet subscribed, sign up here.)
COMMENT This afternoon (3/29) I celebrated Women’s History Month at the Central Park Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument alongside historians Pam Elam and Savona Bailey-McClain and monument sculptor Meredith Bergmann. Thank you to everyone who joined us. Meredith spoke about designing the first-ever … Read more
B.P. Brewer in the News:
March 20-26
Friday, March 26
- Street Blogs NYC by Julianne Cuba, Electeds Call for Wider Bike Lanes on Second Avenue and Beyond
- Streets Blogs NYC by Eve Kessler and Gersh Kuntzman, Mayor: ‘Permanent’ Open Streets Program is Basically an Application Form, Not a Program
- The Broadsheet by Robert Simko, Brewer Pushes for FiDi Thoroughfare to Be Made Pedestrian-Friendly in Perpetuity
- TapInto by Marc Bussanich, Effort Continues to Save 857 Riverside Drive
COVID weekly newsletter (3/25)
- 118,986 cumulative confirmed cases (+1,082 since Monday, 3/22)
- 4,146
