🌱 SI Ferry Slows Service, Cites COVID + Street Name Honors Eric Garner

Happy Monday New York City! Today kicks off restaurant week, which runs through August 21st. Due to employees coming down with COVID, the Staten Island Ferry is temporarily reducing service, a large food pantry is looking for a new home, and a street was renamed in honor of Eric Garner this weekend.

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Here are the top five stories today in New York City:

1. The Staten Island Ferry will be running less frequently from now through July 26 due to its staff frequently catching COVID-19. This comes amid a new COVID wave being brought on by a more infectious variant. (WABC-TV)
2. A large food pantry in Queens, La Jornada, needs to find a new home after it was displaced by the city from its hub in NYCHA Bland Houses in Flushing. La Jornada, which opened at the start of the pandemic, serves close to 11,000 families at almost a dozen locations across the borough. (Gothamist)
3. At a reception last week, Yankees baseball players celebrated the NYPD's Blue Chips mentoring program, which pairs youth with police officers, hoping to grow community bonds and ultimately reduce crime. (AMNY)
4. A street in Staten Island was renamed in honor of Eric Garner on Saturday, eight years after he was slain by a police officer who put him in an illegal chokehold while he was selling loose cigarettes. Eric Garner Way on the island's north shore marks the location where the violent killing, which led to massive protests for police accountability, took place. (New York Post)
5. Electrical workers for Spectrum Cable ended a strike recently — the longest in US history — after five years on a picket line demanding better health benefits from their employer. Over the five-year course of the picket, many of the workers felt abandoned by their union, which ultimately decided to end the strike without a clear resolution. (Documented)

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Today in New York City:

• Healthy on the Hudson x lululemon: HIIT (6:30 p.m.)
• Yoga on the waterfront in Hunter's Point Park. (7 p.m.)
• Jacinda Townsend + Peter Golden : Mother Country at Strand Books (7 p.m.)
• FREE Comedy Show Tix! Top Comics! (9:30 p.m.)

Crime and safety corner:

• Declyn, the son of "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" singer Cyndi Lauper, was arrested after being found in a stolen Mercedez-Benz in Hamilton Heights last week. (Patch)
• Police are searching for four suspects in a Red Hook home invasion that took place shortly before July 4th. (New York City Patch)
• A man fell to his death early Saturday morning while washing windows on an Upper East Side apartment building. (New York City Patch)

From my notebook:

• Fox News has apologized after the network used areal footage from the 9/11 memorial in Lower Manhattan as the backdrop for graphics announcing a baseball game between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. (Gothamist)
• Without warning, it appears that all of NYC's Hale and Hearty soup chain locations are closed down–but it might not be permanent. (New York Post)
• The Carnival Cubano parade marched down Madison Avenue on Sunday, complete with music and dance. (AMNY)
• Upside down trees are the latest feature in Times Square, now through September. (Hyper Allergic)
• Meet this Lower East Side bouncer Randy Robinson who has gained a reputation for himself as "Door Daddy Randy," a friend you can always turn to. (Vice)

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