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New Yorkers working and volunteering at nonprofits that help meet the huge pandemic-driven demand for food became eligible Monday for the COVID-19 vaccine but mutual aid group members apparently don’t count.
The Cuomo administration move followed weeks of lobbying by leaders of nonprofits who argued that those providing meals to food-insecure people across the five boroughs need the shots to protect themselves and the growing legions they serve.
“We’re on the front lines,” said Stephen Grimaldi, executive director of New York Common Pantry.
The news that the workers and volunteers would be added to Phase 1b of the inoculation rollout arrived in an email sent to advocates Monday by Kerri Neifeld, the state’s assistant secretary for Human Services & Mental Hygiene.
perform a monologue, originally commissioned by the Repertory Theater of St. Louis, exploring the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., after a white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, a Black teenager, in 2014. Presented by the Center Theater Group, All Arts and eight regional theaters, the production pulls from Ms. Orlandersmith’s own interviews with residents in the Ferguson area, and uses footage from her performance at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in New York. This event is free to watch at any time, although donations are accepted.
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Celebrate the Lunar New Year’s unique food traditions in a talk from the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, which make up the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. Jan Stuart, the Melvin R. Seiden curator of Chinese art, will present works from the museum’s collection that relate to the holiday’s culinary traditions, and Lydia Chang,of the Peter Chang restaurant empire, will share stori
An innocent bystander was injured in a double shooting while he was delivering food to the Amsterdam Houses at 64th and West End and became caught in gunfire.