With demand remaining high a year into the pandemic, Masbia, which operates around the clock, five days a week with two pantries in Brooklyn and one in Queens, is expanding its capacity to serve.
With the votes in the contest between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden being counted, New York — and New Yorkers — have much riding on the results.
The city Board of Elections sent absentee ballots to some Brooklyn voters with return envelopes bearing strangers’ names and addresses.
Mike Jones, the president of his local block association in Prospect Heights, has helped organize a summer street party on his stretch of St. Johns Place for more than 15 years.
The city lost 20 percent of its jobs in three months, with low-wage workers hardest hit.
