Adi Talwar
A mostly empty City College of New York campus on the evening of Tuesday April 7th. The City University of New York moved to distance-learning on March 19th for the remainder of the Spring semester to contain the spread of COVID-19.
College students say the switch to remote learning has been a hard adjustment. Some have considered taking a gap year if remote learning carries into future semesters, concerned with paying for standard tuition for online classes.
Minimizing the negative effects of truck traffic is no easy task, experts say, as the movement of goods is integral to the city’s economy, and is compounded by the rise of home-delivery services like Amazon Prime and FreshDirect.
Queens Community Board 11 wants the Sanitation Department to reinstate twice weekly food scrap pick-ups, reporting that fewer residents are participating in the program since the collections were reduced.
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