🌱 NYC COVID Cases 'Stabilizing' + Girl Dies In Hit And Run

Dashiell Allen
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Rise and shine, New York City! Let's get you all caught up to start this day off on an informed note. Here's everything happening in New York City today.

First, today's weather:

Partial sunshine. High: 35 Low: 28.

Here are the top five stories in New York City today:

  1. New York City COVID cases and hospitalizations are 'stabilizing' but remain high, according to Mayor Eric Adams, who fell short of prematurely announcing they were in 'decline.' The city saw 13,811 news cases on Sunday, down from 47,591 last week. (New York City Patch)

  2. Hundreds attended a massive funeral for fifteen of the seventeen victims of last week's fire in The Bronx. Four of the victim's bodies will be buried in Gambia, where many from the close-knit community hail from, while the other eleven will be buried in New Jersey. Governor Kathy Hochul also announced a $2 million relief fund for the building's tenants. (New York City Patch)

  3. A 15-year-old girl was killed in an apparent hit-and-run in Midwood, Brooklyn, according to police. The circumstances surrounding the incident are still being investigated. (NBC New York)

  4. New York City schools suffered from a massive outage of the online grading platform Skedula, which it also uses for contact tracing and attendance. The platform also stores an unknown amount of student data, making its outage a potential security risk. The weeklong outage came on the first week back from the December holidays. (Chalkbeat New York)

  5. New York City residents who receive SNAP benefits will be receiving extra cash this month. Governor Kathy Hochul has announced an additional $230 million for the program, meaning that everyone enrolled will receive the maximum benefits. (CBS New York)

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Today in New York City:

  • Walk & Fit with NYC Parks, at Ocean Breeze Park (8:15 AM)

  • Max Colby - The first installation of the 2022 Art in Focus public arts program, on view at Rockefeller Center starting today (9:00 AM)

  • Free Webinar: “Romanesque Architecture in Tuscany” Presented by Dr. Rocky Ruggiero (11:30 AM)

  • Screening of “In Search Of My Sister” with Discussion, at The Museum of Jewish Heritage (5:00 PM)

From my notebook:

  • Here’s a little-known fact about Central Park: the first four numbers at the base of a lamppost will tell you what street you are closest to. (Facebook)

  • In an opinion article Mayor Adams wrote: “As the second Black mayor of NYC, I draw daily inspiration from the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. He is more than a prophetic voice that echoes through history. He is a symbol of how to live, and what to live for.” (NY Daily News)

  • Audubon New York shares: "It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly," - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr." (Facebook)

  • Yesterday marked the 36th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. King delivered various speeches at the Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. (Instagram)

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— Dashiell Allen

This article originally appeared on the New York City Patch