As New York confronts a deadly pandemic, City Limits brings you coverage about how the disease—and the response—will affect the most vulnerable.
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From local pols to community leaders, volunteers to residents, no one believes things are getting much better in the neighborhood now, months into the pandemic.
From the start of the city’s coronavirus crisis in February 2020, the city’s Commission on Human Rights received more than 566 reports of discrimination, harassment, and bias related to COVID-19, 184 of which were anti-Asian in nature.
It’s been nearly a month since New York started its ‘Cluster Action Initiative’ to contain the spread of coronavirus by instituting restrictions in specific hotspot neighborhoods. Will it keep a second wave at bay?
Desde los senadores estatales, pasando por los políticos locales, líderes comunitarios, voluntarios y residentes de Bushwick, ninguno de ellos ve que las cosas estén mejorando en Bushwick.
Photos from the 2018 midterm elections just two years ago contain scenes glaringly missing from Tuesday: crowded poll sites, tightly packed voter lines and candidates hugging at celebration parties, to name a few. In 2020, voting meant a lot more hand sanitizer, face masks and waiting outside.
It’s been more than seven months since New York started coronavirus lockdown measures, and just as the crisis itself has shifted and evolved over time, so too have the informal networks of volunteers and neighbors working to help one another endure it.
The City Council allowed the charge to help struggling businesses cover costs. But owners fear steeper charges might drive away customers.
Since the start of the crisis, low-income residents are canceling or delaying preventative care like physicals and vaccinations at a higher rate than wealthier residents, a survey released Tuesday found.
Though it’s still unclear how the federal government will distribute vaccinations, the state’s draft plan would prioritized health care workers and other residents at highest risk.
The de Blasio administration has no schedule for reopening the centers, and it seems likely the centers will not offer in-person services until 2021.