Mayor Bill de Blasio assured that more than 70,000 air conditioners will be installed for free throughout the city to cope with the heat wave in the midst of the pandemic. This is part of the district’s home energy assistance program and more than 4,500 units have been installed so far, the mayor reported Friday. … Read more
High-risk healthcare workers and nursing home residents and workers will be first in line for the coronavirus vaccine, city health officials reported Friday. The Covid-19 vaccination effort will be the largest in the City’s history. Health Commissioner Dave Chokshi detailed the city plan during a meeting of the City Council Health Committee. The first shipments … Read more
A four-year-old boy is in critical condition following a fire in Brooklyn early Monday. Images of the scene were shared by the Citizen App. According to reports, the emergency call came before 1:30 a.m. Flames broke out on the top floor of a three-story house on Pitkin Avenue and Barbey Street in East New York. … Read more
Andrea Pérez walks with her two daughters. The mother moved to Sunset Park a few years ago from the neighboring neighborhood of Park Slope in search of better prices. He explains that his case was not isolated. “We moved just when a lot of people were coming like an exodus from Park Slope, from Windsor … Read more
The first dose of Covid-19 vaccines will arrive in New York City as early as December 15, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday. The city will receive a first shipment or shipment of vaccines of about half a million doses, the mayor explained. Of these, 254,250 will be from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, which will … Read more
New York State will receive 170,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine in the coming weeks, Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed, this as COVID cases in the state continue to increase and state officials continue to carefully monitor the increase in hospitalizations. Frontline healthcare workers and people living in nursing homes and long-term care facilities are expected … Read more
Felix Zompa, who lives a few blocks from Elmhurst Hospital, is terrified of living the same nightmare as a few months ago when doctors could not cope with all Covid patients. “The sadness of in March and April many people were dying. The containers they had on the back side were very bad to see, … Read more
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and a coalition of organizations called on the federal Department of Health to facilitate access for undocumented communities and other underserved groups to the COVID-19 vaccine. In a letter sent to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, released Tuesday, Cuomo and 50 religious, union, … Read more
Frandy Ureña works at the Listo Chimi restaurant, on Myrtle Avenue, and assures that thefts have become common. “It is something that we do hear a lot. Almost every day you hear that this happened, a looting in such a store, in such a business. It is something that we all know is not right,” … Read more
Governor Cuomo expressed concern about what he called “the Thanksgiving effect” and what this may mean for hospitals. Cuomo anticipates an increase in coronavirus cases during the coming week and fears that hospitals will fill up. At a press conference, he pointed out that hospitals are: “the front lines.” He assured that the reason why … Read more