Why SoHo Struggles and Indie Shops in Brooklyn Are Doing Fine
Retail chains have failed all over New York City. Is it a surprise that smaller stores can finally breathe?
How are the boutiques of Boerum Hill making it? Owners invested in the neighborhood and local landlords are rooting for their success.Credit.James Estrin/The New York Times
Feb. 12, 2021
With the exception of November 1929, there has probably been no moment less conducive to opening a jewelry store in New York than at any point during the past 11 months. So it was a hopeful and norm-defying sign, like a heat wave in a Finnish noir, to find Page Sargisson Jewelry arriving on the corner of Hoyt Street and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn right after Thanksgiving.
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Covid-19: The World Has Changed. So Has the Playbook for the Olympics.
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San Francisco will sue its own school district to force it to reopen to students. A judge ordered inmates in Oregon prisons to be vaccinated.
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No cheering, singing or handshakes. And no riding public transportation without special permission.
After nearly two months of relative silence amid new waves of coronavirus infection in Japan and many other countries, organizers of this summer’s Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday released the first of several so-called playbooks that will instruct athletes, officials and members of the news media on the protocols they must follow at this summer’s rescheduled Games.
Covid-19: Snowstorm Disrupts Vaccinations Across Northeast
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The spread of the virus is slowing in U.S. nursing homes. Republican senators who want to scale back aid in the next coronavirus relief package will meet with President Biden.
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New York City Postpones Vaccine Appointments Ahead of Storm
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city would postpone Covid-19 vaccinations scheduled for Monday and suspend in-person learning for the day after winter storm conditions were forecast for the area.
“For Monday, we are not going to have in-person school. We will pivot to remote learning for all our students. So no school in-person on Monday canceled now. We will have an update tomorrow about Tuesday. Right now we do not have a decision for Tuesday yet. We have to see more about how this storm develops. Vaccine sites, and again, we want to get everyone vaccinated. We’re going be ta