Earlier this month, brownstone stoops along Pacific Street in Cobble Hill were packed with fresh flower arrangements. It looked like an outdoor flower show, and briefly it was. But mostly it was a staging area for generous contributions of fresh flower arrangements from BloomAgainBklyn for the workers and patients at Cobble Hill Health Center. Founded […]
Franklin Stone and her husband David Wenk recently came up with a plan to express gratitude for those city health care workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic during day shifts. Shortly before 3:00 p.m. on Monday, at the couple’s request, a hyper-local cheering crowd gathered outside the Cobble Hill Health Center to express gratitude for the […]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York, by far the nation’s leader in coronavirus nursing home deaths, released details Friday on outbreaks in individual facilities after weeks of refusing to do so. The report revealed one home in Brooklyn where 55 people died and four others with at least 40 deaths. “Every death is heartbreaking,” said […]