Bridget Bartolini
At Al-Naimat in Jackson Heights, owner Abdul Hamid serves one of the final customers on March 27th, shortly before closing the restaurant.
In 1945, near the end of the WWII, the city instituted commercial rent control as an emergency wartime measure, authorized by the state. Advocates are calling for a similar response to the COVID-19 crisis.
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