Daily Links: New York Declares Real Estate Showings ‘Essential,’ Then Walks It Back
In the News
- Bushwick Priest Said Mass Via Live Stream, Then Fell to Virus [NYT]
- Banks Warn of ‘Overwhelming’ Demand for Small Business Loans [NYT]
- Will We Lose a Generation of Designers in Brooklyn and Beyond? [NYT]
- Crowded Hasidic Funeral Goes on in Midwood [NYP]
- Brooklyn Justice Johnny Lee Baynes Died From COVID-19 Complications [Eagle]
- Bushwick Park Accidentally Closed After New Playground Order [BP]
- Brooklyn’s Muslims and Jews Struggle to Observe Burial Traditions [Bklyner]
- ‘Essential’ Laundromats Under Strain as City’s Wash Culture Shifts [The City]
- Prospect Heights Third Grade Teacher Dies From Coronavirus [Chalkbeat]
- Gowanus Documentarian Encourages Talk About Changing Lives [PMFA]
- The History of Brooklyn’s Blackout Cake [UntappedNY]
- Virtual Showings Only: State Clarifies ‘Essential Business’ Announcement [TRD]
Daily Links: Governor Orders Closure of All City Playgrounds
In the News
- NYC Bodegas, Delis Become Lifelines Amid Coronavirus Crisis [NYDN]
- NYC Map Shows Percent Positive Coronavirus Test by ZIP Code [NYP]
- Coney Island Hospital Workers Given One Face Mask Per Week [BP]
- Governor Orders All City Playgrounds to Close [BP]
- Three Men Charged With 2011 Murder of Ditmas Park Cafe Owner [BP]
- Brooklyn’s Economy Slammed Harder Than Manhattan’s by the Crisis [Eagle]
- The Show Must Go on—Virtually—for NYC Real Estate Brokers [Bloomberg]
- Williamsburg Landlord Waives Rent for Hundreds of Tenants [Greenpointers]
- Temporary Bike Lane on Smith Street Is Great [Streetsblog]
- Rainbow Spotting on the Quiet Streets of Brooklyn [The Cut]
- Dark Colors, Patterns, Secondhand Finds Transform Brooklyn Apartment [AT]
Daily Links: Brooklyn Navy Yard Pivots to Making Masks, Hand Sanitizer
In the News
- 40 Percent of NYC Tenants May Not Pay Rent This Month [NYT]
- She’s 105 and in a Crown Heights Nursing Home Threatened by the Virus [NYT]
- A ‘Wartime Factory’ at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Is Fighting Coronavirus [NYT]
- Borough Park Man Arrested for Hoarding Masks, Coughing on FBI Agents [NYP]
- Support Park Slope Restaurants Without Leaving Your Couch [BP]
- Dyker Heights Roots of Dr. Fauci, Central Figure in Coronavirus Response [BP]
- Sunset Park Artist’s Furniture Celebrates the Goopier Side of Life [Introspective]
- Advice from a Midwood Resident on Surviving the Unimaginable [NYM]
- A Ceramicist and Author’s Ditmas Park House is Full of Art, Books [AT]
- NYC Will Close 23 Child Care Centers for ‘Essential’ Workers [Chalkbeat]
Daily Links: Hospital Ship USNS Comfort Arrives in New York Harbor
In the News
- Gravesend Bar Owner Is City’s First Coronavirus Shutdown Arrest [NYP]
- Street Vendors to City: Don’t Forget About Us [Eagle]
- Gowanus Boat Club Launches Raffle to Help Keep Small Businesses Afloat [BP]
- Cuomo’s Proposed Budget Includes $38 Million in Cuts to Brooklyn Hospital [BP]
- Navy’s ‘Floating Hospital’ USNS Comfort Arrives in New York Harbor [amNY]
- Author of ‘The Brooklyn Nobody Knows’ Dies of Coronavirus [JTA]
- Carroll Gardens Nurse Practitioner Asks Neighbors for Mask Donations [PMFA]
- Desperate NYC Tenants Say ‘There’s No Choice’ But to Rent Strike [Gothamist]
- Elderly Woman Dies After COVID Assault in Woodhull Hospital [Gothamist]
- Renderings Unveiled for Six-Story Mixed-Use Building in Williamsburg [NYY]
Daily Links: Coronavirus Hospital Coming to Brooklyn Cruise Terminal
In the News
- Trump Signs $2 Trillion Bill as U.S. Virus Cases Pass 100,000 [NYT]
- A Brooklyn Fan Who Never Gave Up on Ebbets Field [NYT]
- Williamsburg’s Gertie Turns Into Soup Kitchen for Laid Off Workers [NYP]
- Brooklynites Call to Suspend Metered Parking [BP]
- 1,000-Bed Coronavirus Hospital Coming to Brooklyn Cruise Terminal [Eagle]
- Cuomo Calls Off ‘Non-Essential’ Construction Statewide [The City]
- NYSC Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit Over Membership Fees [Gothamist]
- A Prospect Heights Quarantine Diary [casaCARA]
- National Grid Halts Brooklyn Pipeline Over COVID-19 Pandemic [Bushwick Daily]
- Remembering Rebecca Reich, Who Battled for a Wounded Brooklyn [City Limits]
- Ditmas Park Wheated Selling Whiskey Collection to Benefit Employees [Eater]
- One Boerum Place Tops Out in Downtown Brooklyn [NYY]
Daily Links: Portion of Bushwick Avenue to Temporarily Close to Cars
In the News
- With a Doctor in the Brooklyn Hospital Center E.R. [NYT]
- Brooklyn BP Adams Distributes Masks to Transit Workers [NYP]
- Brooklynites Foster Pets en Masse Amid Covid-19 Outbreak [BP]
- Brooklynites Say Filing for Unemployment Is a Full-Time Job [Eagle]
- ‘Unprecedented’ Coronavirus Rush Daily at Bed Stuy Food Pantry [Patch]
- Amazon Doesn’t Purchase Red Hook Fairway [Gothamist]
- Laid Off Hourly Workers in NYC Are Running Out of Time and Money [Gothamist]
- Carroll Gardens Corona Diary: Social Distancing [PMFA]
- Here Are the Four Streets de Blasio Will Temporarily Close to Cars [Streetsblog]
Daily Links: Stay at Home May Be Working to Curb Coronavirus Spread in NYC
In the News
- Real Estate’s Spring Sales Season Slows to a Trickle [NYT]
- Cuomo Confirms NYC Street Closures to Help Shake Coronavirus Blues [NYP]
- Three Construction Workers Injured in Sheepshead Bay Trench Collapse [NYP]
- Brooklyn Volunteers Work Together to Make Face Masks for City’s Hospitals [BP]
- Park Slope Studio Offering Online Art Classes [BP]
- Bay Ridge Businesses Show Appreciation for Essential Workers [BKReporter]
- Cuomo: Density Reduction May Be Working to Curb Coronavirus Spread [amNY]
- Looking for Info on Coronavirus in Spanish? [Bklyner]
- No More Coronavirus Crowds at Park Slope Coop [Patch]
- Eight-Story Residential Building Coming to Crown Heights [NYY]
Daily Links: Young Brownsville Principal Dies From Coronavirus
In the News
- Subway Service Is Cut by a Quarter Because of Coronavirus [NYT]
- They Want to Help Neighbors During the Pandemic. Should They? [NYT]
- Parks Too Crowded? Meet You at the Cemetery Gates [NYT]
- This Brooklyn Nurse is Making Miracles Happen Amid Coronavirus Crisis [NYP]
- Dumbo’s Grimaldi’s Offers Delivery for the First Time [BP]
- Bushwick Council Candidate Calls for Postponing April Special Election [BP]
- Pols Propose Relief Program to Cover April Rent [AmNY]
- Construction Worker Tests Positive, But North Brooklyn Pipeline Proceeds [Eagle]
- South Brooklyn Businesses Turn Away Customers Without Masks [Bklyner]
- Brooklyn Houses Of Worship Close Physical Doors, Open Virtual Ones [Bklyner]
- A Brownsville Principal has Died from Coronavirus Complications [Chalkbeat]
- Six-Story Mixed-Use Building Planned for Williamsburg [NYY]
Daily Links: Amazon Vies to Scoop Up Red Hook’s Fairway Store as It Expands During Pandemic
In the News
- Eli Miller, Brooklyn’s Sultan of Seltzer, Is Dead at 86 [NYT]
- Amazon Looking to Buy Red Hook Fairway Amid Coronavirus Chaos [NYP]
- Park Slope Fiddler Serenaded Her Neighbors [NYP]
- C Train Halted Temporarily After Conductor Self-Reports COVID-19 [AmNY]
- No Temporary Coronavirus Hospital Planned for Brooklyn [Eagle]
- Could Coney Island Creek Become Brooklyn’s Next Superfund Site? [Eagle]
- Playgrounds Remain Open, But Are They Safe? [Bklyner]
- Community Gardens Are Now Closed to The Public [Gothamist]
- Clinton Hill Bartender Biking to Deliver Essential ‘Medication’ [Streetsblog]
- Mail Carriers Balk at Entering Williamsburg Post Office [The City]
- One of the NYC Restaurant World’s Most Devastating Weeks, in Photos [Eater]
- Seven-Story Mixed-Use Building Coming to East Flatbush [NYY]
Daily Links: Cuomo Rails Against Gatherings in Parks as NYC Declared Epicenter
In the News
- New York City Region Is Now an Epicenter of the Coronavirus Pandemic [NYT]
- Hatzola Issues Dire Coronavirus Warning to Borough Park [NYP]
- Jumaane Williams Wants de Blasio to Suspend Construction [NYP]
- Transit System Is Empty as Fears Grow Over Coronavirus [amNY]
- Brooklyn Public Library Moves Community Programs Online [BP]
- Brooklyn Coronavirus Help Lists Swell With Volunteers [Patch]
- Brooklynites Pin Rainbows in Windows as Borough-Wide ‘I Spy’ [PMFA]
- New York’s Move to Halt Evictions Lacks Clarity [Curbed]
- In NYC Nursing Homes, Families Fear Impact of Isolation [Gothamist]
- Cuomo Appalled by People Congregating in NYC Parks [Gothamist]
- An ER Doctor From Park Slope Explains What She’s Up Against [Vogue]
- How One Designer Transformed Her Park Slope Rental on a Budget [AD]
- The Latest Product From Brooklyn Distilleries: Artisanal Hand Sanitizer [Eater]
