Neighborhood Notes: Mobile COVID-19 Bus Clinics, Help with Funeral Costs, New E-Scooter Program

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Lehman College Vaccination Site As reported, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is available at the Lehman College vaccination site, located at the APEX Athletic Center, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West. The site is open to New Yorkers aged 16 or older, as well as to non-New York City residents aged 16 or older who work or study in the city. Eligible individuals aged 50 and over may walk-in without making an appointment, as long as they’re able to show proof of age. However, those aged 49 and under will not be seen without an appointment. To schedule a vaccine appointment, visit https://vaccinefinder.nyc.gov/locations/664

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A Norwood resident may have woken up $14,000 richer today. The New York Lottery announced on Saturday, May 8, that there were multiple, top-prize winning tickets sold for the May 7 TAKE 5 drawing. The tickets were sold in the Norwood section of the The Bronx, in Levittown, in Manhattan, in Richmond Hill and in Watertown, at the following locations. 3161 Norwood Deli Corp located at 3161 Bainbridge Avenue in The Bronx, which sold one prize-winning ticket worth $14,254.50 Desai Newsstand located at 100 W57th Street in Manhattan, which sold one prize-winning ticket worth $13,872.00 Family Grocery & Deli located

Opening of Lehman College Vaccination Site On Tuesday, April 20, Lehman College, CUNY formally announced that it has partnered with the City to launch the Bronx’s newest COVID-19 vaccination hub, located at the college’s APEX Athletic Center at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West in the borough’s Kingsbridge Heights neighborhood, as reported by Norwood News. The site is being run by SOMOS Community Care, and will serve up to 300 people a day with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The site is open to New Yorkers aged 16 or older, as well as to non-New York City residents aged 16 or older who

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A report by the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce shows that The Bronx received just 7 percent of all federal Payment Protection Program (PPP) loans allocated to New York City. This was the second lowest percent of all five boroughs, after Staten Island. Meanwhile, the report shows that federal PPP loans injected $25 billion, approximately, into the city’s economy, and saved nearly 2.7 million jobs, amid the COVID-19 crisis. In a press release dated April 8, chamber representatives wrote that their report shows that New York City businesses received a total of 230,747 individual PPP loans guaranteed by the federal

The U.S. Small Business Association (SBA), in conjunction with SoBRO, is hosting a briefing on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 10 a.m., via ZOOM, on the Restaurant Revitization Fund (RRF) application process, the Payment Protection Program (PPP) application changes, PPP forgiveness, and updated information on the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) increase and EIDL advance. The briefing will focus on the following: Eligibility Calculation of Funding Amount Eligible Uses of Funds Timeframe for Using Funds How to Apply Documentation Requirements SoBRO was founded in 1972 by a group of business executives and community leaders with the mission of reversing the

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In the wake of the conviction earlier this week of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota in May 2020, on Friday, April 23, 2021, Congressman Jamaal Bowman led 40 of his Democratic congressional colleagues in a letter to President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta in which they urge the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its civil rights investigation into the death of Tamir Rice. Tamir Rice, a Black, 12-year-old boy, was shot and killed by police in November 2014 while playing with

The U.S. Small Business Association (SBA) has enhanced the process of applying for economic relief for operators of live venues, live performing arts organizations, museums and movie theaters, as well as live venue promoters, theatrical producers and talent representatives. The agency is relaunching its Shuttered Venue Operators Grant application portal (SVOG) on Saturday, April 24, at 12.30 p.m. following the resolution of some technical issues encountered during its initial launch on April 8. Barb Carson is deputy associate administrator of SBA’s Office of Disaster Assistance and said the agency recognizes the urgency and need to get the program up

The closure of the Bronx High School of Science mass vaccination site, effective April 15, was a blow to local seniors in the Bronx Community Board 7 district and beyond, as reported last week by Norwood News. A new COVID-19 vaccination site opened at Lehman College on Wednesday, April 14, though details of the new site had initially been scant. Happily, further information has since become available. On Saturday, April 17, Bronx BP Ruben Diaz Jr. confirmed that the following Bronx sites, including Lehman College, would be vaccinating New Yorkers aged 50 and older, without an appointment: Bronx Co-Op

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced on Thursday, April 22, that it will provide $5 billion in additional Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) assistance to one million small businesses and nonprofit organizations that have been most severely impacted by the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The additional loans fall under the Supplemental Targeted Advance loan program, the latest SBA relief program to launch as part of the American Rescue Plan Act on March 11, 2021. SBA Administrator, Isabella Casillas Guzman, said many of the nation’s small businesses are still struggling to recover from the economic impact of the

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