Chinese owners of laundromats say they are worried more about their safety during the coronavirus pandemic, and some say they’ve had employees quit because they are afraid to come to work.
The group, which started on Facebook, helps connect volunteers with those in need of things like groceries and medicine. ‘We are really overwhelmed with these calls,’ one member said.
Our reporters captured scenes of the first full day under the governor’s order for 100 percent of non-essential employees to stay home.
The spread of coronavirus could mean additional agony for hundreds of day laborers, mostly Latin American immigrants, who stand on the corner of 69th Street and Roosevelt Avenue and other locations every morning in the hope of scoring temporary work.
Two Queens reporters break down the race for ‘beep’, the runners and why it all matters.
Union members are calling on lawmakers to pass a bill that would provide airport workers with supplemental pay to buy health insurance.
The de Blasio administration’s vision will take decades to realize. But in the near term, a subway station must be funded and a nonprofit steering entity created, amid deep concerns from some local advocates.
In the Chinese community, people started to hoard rice and other durable foods. Several Chinese supermarkets found their sales of rice had jumped 50 percent, and some were out of stock temporarily.
Purushottam Panthi is planning to register a nonprofit organization in memory of his son, Shree.
Other than the fact that there’s been no environmental impact statement and an unelected official will provide the borough-wide recommendation on it, everything about the Flushing Creek plan is perfectly normal.
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