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Two Vaccine Sites, Each For 3,000 People A Day, To Open In Queens And Brooklyn
arrow A Vaccination Site sign outside the entrance of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx on February 5th, 2021. Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock
Two new sites, each injecting 3,000 people a day with a COVID-19 vaccine, will open in Brooklyn and Queens later this month, state officials announced on Wednesday. They will start to receive visitors the week of February 24th.
“It is the largest vaccination site that we have ever opened, and it’s for Queens residents, as Yankee Stadium is for Bronx residents, as the Medgar Ever College site will be for the Brooklyn residents,” Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters in a virtual briefing on Wednesday.
The Tablet January 8, 2021
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is pictured in an undated file photo. (Photo: Catholic News Service)
BEDFORD–STUYVESANT Brooklynites in the winter of 1963 got a preview of one of history’s most iconic moments the delivery several months later of the “I Have a Dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
On Feb. 10, 1963, the civil rights leader visited the historic Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, which, a century earlier, became a rallying center for the abolitionist movement and a stop on the Underground Railroad. Its first pastor, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, was a prominent abolitionist and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”