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2021 Community Board application is now “live”
Weekly COVID newsletter (12/31)
B.P. Brewer in the News:
December 19-25
Wednesday, December 23
- Manhattan Times, Planting in the pandemic
- Gothamist by Sydney Pereira, NY Scrambles To Ensure COVID Vaccine Rollout Doesn’t Leave Behind Black And Brown Communities
- West Side Spirit, Share Gratitude 2020
- Patch by Nick Garber, City Pledges Not To Reopen Roosevelt Island Coronavirus Hospital
- West Side Rag, Borough President Says Shoppers Should Stay Alert After Trader Joe’s Theft
- Patch by Nick
Weekly COVID newsletter (12/21)
Friends,
The winter solstice occurred at 5:02 am today (12/21). Daylight hours will begin to lengthen, minute by minute, until the summer solstice in June.
But the statistics on the pandemic are only getting darker.
Great Britain has fallen to a particularly contagious strain of the virus, and their Prime Minister has imposed a strict lockdown; other EU countries have restricted flights from Great Britain. (Gov. Cuomo announced that British… Read more Weekly COVID Newsletter (12/17)
Friends,
It’s Thursday, December 17, 2020. Welcome to my weekly COVID-19 newsletter.
Manhattan has had 53,872 cumulative confirmed cases and 3,255 deaths (that’s 3,965 more cases and 21 more deaths since last week). The city as a whole has had 365,758 total cases and 24,578 total deaths (which is 24,784 more cases and 167 more deaths since last week), according to nonprofit news site TheCity.nyc’s COVID-19 tracker.
Those… Read more Weekly COVID newsletter (12/10)
2021 NYPD Community Precinct Council schedules
- 1st Precinct (Financial District, Battery Park City, Tribeca SoHo, Governors, Ellis and Liberty Islands), no virtual meetings; once safe, in-person meetings will be the last Thursday of the month, 6:30 pm
- 5th Precinct (Chinatown, Little Italy, Bowery), last Wednesday of each month, 7 pm (excluding July, August)
- 6th Precinct (Greenwich Village, West Village), 2nd Wednesday of each month
Pioneers of Women’s Rights in Manhattan Walking Tour
A century has passed since American suffragists girded for their final push to win the ballot for women in every corner of the United States. Visit the sites around Manhattan where you can see reminders of the struggles and achievements of New York women who spoke, marched, and even fought for the vote and the full panoply of rights. These were women who marched to Albany in the winter, or
Weekly COVID newsletter (12/3)
B.P. Brewer in the News:
November 21-27
Wednesday, November 25
- amNY by Mark Hallum, City backs down on controversial special permits for hotels below 14th Street
- Curbed by Valeria Ricciulli, What You Need to Know Now About the Upper West Side Homeless-Shelters Saga
- NY1 by Patrick Adcroft, Reactions and Tributes Pour in After Former Mayor David Dinkins Dies at 93
- City & State by Jeff Coltin and Kimberly Gonzalez, Friends and colleagues remember David
