🌱 COVID Cases Rise In NYC + Yu And Me Books Opens On Mulberry

Happy hump day, Lower East Side-Chinatown! I am your host, Patrick Murray, bringing you today's top three headlines.

First, today's weather:

Partly cloudy and mild with a high of 55 and a low of 37.

Here are the top stories today in Lower East Side-Chinatown:

1. Coronavirus cases have spiked by over 60 percent in Manhattan in recent weeks. Cases have been on the rise across the nation, and Manhattan is no exception, with a rate of 274.3 new cases per 100,000 residents being reported between Dec. 6-12. Nationally, nearly 118,000 cases were being reported daily by Dec. 10, compared to approximately 86,300 at the beginning of December. (Lower East Side-Chinatown Patch)
2. Yu and Me Books, New York's first Asian American woman-owned bookstore, opened on Saturday in Chinatown. Located on Mulberry Street, Yu and Me Books represents a lifelong dream of owner and founder Lucy Yu, as well as a direct response to the surge in anti-Asian violence during the pandemic. The 27-year-old storeowner dreamed of providing a space for Asian, Black and Latinx voices to be heard. (NBC News)
3. Two men were taken into custody by the NYPD in connection with the shooting that shattered a window at the Great Oaks Charter School on Delancey. Police officers removed the two men from their vehicle on Grand Street two days after the shooting occurred. A clip of the arrest being made immediately went viral on TikTok, and quickly amassed over 1 million views. (Bowery Boogie)

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Today in Lower East Side-Chinatown:

• Cinema Chats at the Museum at Eldridge Street, Ferenc Török's "1945." (6 p.m.)
• La Cocina de Loisaida at Essex Market. (6 p.m.)
• Deadly Art of Survival Magazine, the second issue release party at Sour Mouse. (6 p.m.)
• Eve Starr Gives Her All! At the Slipper Room. (11:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• The view of E. 10th St. and Avenue D from 1965! (Facebook)
• Post Punk hit The Bowery Ballroom in a big way on Friday with Preoccupations, METZ, and FACS. (NYSMusic)
• Piper and Jenny, the NYPD's first ever therapy dogs. (Twitter)

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• Big Apple Circus is NOW OPEN in New York City! (December 17)
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— Patrick Murray