Bushwick-based clothing designer Zam Barrett is on a mission to replace all of the disposable masks worn by Brooklyn police officers for a reusable and more protective option. To do this, the clothing designer-turned-mask-maker, is sewing more than 1150 washable, reusable masks with his team in its onsite workshop to provide for all of the …
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Following a series of troubling viral videos that sparked a debate about NYPD enforcement of social distancing, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Sunday an increase in the number of non-NYPD “social distancing ambassadors.” “The last thing we want to see is enforcement if there’s any other way to get the job …
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NEW YORK (AP) — After an outcry over racial disparities in New York City’s enforcement of social distancing, the mayor planned Sunday to double the ranks of non-police workers trying to persuade people to comply with the policy. The number of city workers deployed as “social distancing ambassadors” will grow by next weekend from around …
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It’s a bitter cold morning in late January and pastor Gilford Monrose has forgotten his hat. Monrose is the president of the 67th Precinct Clergy Council, and he’s preparing to lead a crew of men and women of the cloth on an outreach mission to talk to East Flatbush residents about the central problem that …
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