JUNE 22nd RESOURCES AND UPDATES:
New York City entered Phase Two of reopening today. Industries included in Phase Two are:
In-person retail
Hair salons and barbershops
Real estate
Offices
Vehicle sales, leases, and rentals
All of these businesses must operate at half capacity and with mandatory COVID safeguards in place, including social distancing and facial coverings.
CB8 Statement Regarding The Memorial To George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, And Others In Carl Schurz Park - Patch
CB8M Women and Families Committee Releases Guidelines On How To Secure Food During The Pandemic - Patch
PHOTOS: Youth of NYC call for change during Children’s March on Upper East Side - AM NY
150 East 78th Street Climbs Above Halfway Mark On The Upper East Side - Yimby
MTA Bus Driver Fatally Hits Cyclist On The Upper East Side - Gothamist
Exterior Progress Continues On 1059 Third Avenue On The Upper East Side - Yimby
Beckford House And Tower Near Completion On The Upper East Side - Yimby
All Quiet on the Far East Side - NY Times
RAMSA’s 1230 Madison Avenue Nears Topping Out, On The Upper East Side - YIMBY
Netflix Documentary Follows Lives Of Lenox Hill Doctors - Patch
323 East 61st Street’s Etched Glass Curtain Wall Begins Installation On The Upper East Side - Yimby
Target to open new stores on the Upper East Side, Upper West Side - 6sq ft
BOND New York Announces Upper East Side New Development Leasing - Patch
180 East 88th Street Awaits Completion Of Its Signature Arches, On The Upper East Side - Yimby
More than 3,000 restaurants sign up for outdoor dining as city enters new reopening phase - Politico
A Slow Climb Back Begins as NYC Hits Likely Bottom on Job Losses - The City
Partially reopen, New York City bears little resemblance to its former self - Politico
Firework Complaints Increase By 230X In June As Officials Seek Supplier Crackdown - Gothamist
New York City's subway dilemma: Will overnight train service ever come back? - Politico
New Yorkers Now Can Return to the Office.
JUNE 17th RESOURCES AND UPDATES:
GOVERNOR CUOMO ANNOUNCES THAT PHASE 2 IS ON TRACK TO BEGIN THIS COMING MONDAY, JUNE 22
At his press conference earlier today, the Governor announced that, barring any changes in the public health metrics of the region, Phase 2 in New York City is is on track to begin this coming Monday, June 22.
Noted the Governor: "New York City will have been Phase 1 for 14 days.
NYC's poorest neighborhoods have highest death rates from coronavirus - Politico
De Blasio considering options if schools are unsafe in September - Politico
City: Nearly 178,000 public school students will be in summer school - Politico
For some LGBTQ youth, school buildings were safer spaces than their homes.
JUNE 11th RESOURCES AND UPDATES:
Starting today, localities can open public pools and playgrounds at their discretion. They must use health data and metrics as a guide to inform each decision.
Through June 15th, 2020, health insurance enrollment is open for uninsured New Yorkers as part of a Special Enrollment Period: https://www1.nyc.
JUNE 8th RESOURCES AND UPDATES:
Today is the first day of Phase One reopening, 100 days after the shutdown.
The State has released a New York Forward Business Reopening Web Tool, which helps small businesses determine if they have met the criteria for reopening.
MAY 28th RESOURCES AND UPDATES:
Mayor de Blasio said that over 1,700 tracers have been hired to join the Test & Trace Corp, surpassing the City’s goal to hire 1,000 tracers by June 1, with 700 hired from neighborhoods hardest hit by the virus.
MAY 22nd RESOURCES AND UPDATES:
Emergency Food Program: By next week, the Emergency Food Program will be delivering over 1 million meals per day. This is on top of the City’s grab-and-go program, which already serves over 500,000 meals per day at 500+ schools across the City.
MAY 19TH RESOURCES AND UPDATES:
Mayor de Blasio announced that the City will partner with CityMD to offer walk-in diagnostic COVID-19 testing to New Yorkers, effectively tripling the number of available testing sites citywide.
Plan to pedestrianize Park Avenue floated as mayor expands street closures - The Real Deal
Subway Shutdown: New York Closes System for First Time in 115 Years - NY Times
State Board of Elections will appeal primary decision - Times Union
NYC allows Zoom (once again) for remote learning - Chalkbeat
New York City to Increase Burial Assistance - WSJ
New York Extends Moratorium on Evictions - WSJ
Rent Guidelines Board approves rent freeze in preliminary vote - Politico
New York City to offer 140,000 coronavirus antibody tests for residents - Politico
Dining in post-coronavirus NYC will include gloves, masks and lots of space - NY Post
Scrutiny of Social-Distance Policing as 35 of 40 Arrested Are Black - NY Times
Coronavirus has likely killed over 5 percent of NY nursing-home residents - NY Post
Mysterious Coronavirus Illness Claims 3 Children in New York - NY Times
These Are the Things That New Yorkers Achingly Miss - NY Times
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