Around Brooklyn: Kathryn Garcia wants senior centers to reopen
Kathryn Garcia wants senior centers to reopen
Former Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for mayor, recently joined with Justin Yu, president of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, at Open Door Senior Center in Chinatown to call on Mayor de Blasio to fully reopen senior centers. “Today, I am calling on the City to fully reopen our senior centers across the five boroughs,” she said. “Even with vaccination rates soaring and COVID infection rates plummeting, New York City’s senior centers are still closed, denying so many of our older New Yorkers the companionship and services they need. Schools are open. Bars are open. Gyms are open. But the senior centers our older folks rely on for social life and city services have remained shut.”
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