Tenant advocates warn of a coming wave of evictions

Thursday July 30, 2020 [Advertisement: click here to listen to Richard the second on Apple podcast presented by WNYC in collaboration with The Public Theater]( ADVERTISEMENT [Looming Eviction Crisis Has NYC Renters Fearing The Worst]( [People participate in a protest calling on New York to cancel rent outside Brooklyn housing court July 7th, 2020.]( ["Unless there's some sort of miracle, people suddenly hit the lottery, or if all the landlords agree to cancel the rent, there's nothing in the law that says the judges can just forgive that."]( [Advertisement: click here to listen to Richard the second on Apple podcast presented by WNYC in collaboration with The Public Theater]( ADVERTISEMENT ICYMI: More Stories From Today [111 Centre Street, State Supreme Court building.]( [What Role Do the City’s Courts Play In The Alarming Rise in Shootings?]( Mayor Bill de Blasio claims the system's slowdown during the pandemic plays some role, which the court system denies. Who’s right? [The Sunset Park waterfront, currently targeted for rezoning.]( [Menchaca Puts Kibosh On Controversial Sunset Park Waterfront Rezoning Proposal]( Gentrification fears drove much of the opposition to the project, along with those who wanted to see the waterfront reimagined for green manufacturing and a blue collar workforce. [A flyer advertising the Movies In Your Car drive-in theater in Queens]( [Drive-In Movie Theater Highlighting Black American Films Opens This Weekend In Queens]( Their initial lineup this weekend includes "Girls Trip," "Training Day," "Minions," "Belly," "Sonic," "Harlem Nights," "Trolls," and "Transformers." [Food Bank for New York City conducts free food distribution fo people in need amid COVID-19 pandemic at Lincoln Center.]( [Coronavirus Updates: New Study Suggests Children May Carry COVID-19 At High Levels]( The study did not conclude whether infected children are contagious, but the authors said they could be important drivers of the disease. [Pastor Isaac Scott holds up signs 'Cuomo Le Them Go' and 'No Death Camps in NYS' during a vigil organized by justice reform advocates and local faith leaders in response to the recent death of New York State inmate Leonard Carter in front of the Queensboro Correctional Facility.]( [Only 14 Percent Of State Prison Inmates Have Been Tested For COVID-19, Raising Risks Of Large Outbreak]( “These facilities can really be hot zones for the spread of the coronavirus." [The Pergola area of the Gardens]( [Wave Hill Public Garden Reopens In The Bronx]( Karen Meyerhoff, the executive director at Wave Hill, said she cried after going back for the first time and getting to see her favorite plants again. [A taxi]( [COVID Crisis Sends Yellow Taxi Drivers Into Financial Freefall, Report Shows]( Daily trips for yellow taxis dropped by a factor of ten — from 200,000 trips in February to 18,325 trips in June, according to a new report. [Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample. The black area in the image is extracellular space between the cells. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland.]( [Coronavirus Statistics: Tracking The Epidemic In New York]( These charts show the growth of COVID-19 in New York City and State, as well as in NYC boroughs. [Advertisement: click here to listen to Richard the second on Apple podcast presented by WNYC in collaboration with The Public Theater]( ADVERTISEMENT [Support Us]( [Gothamist on Facebook]( [Gothamist on Twitter]( NYPR Network [WNYC]( [Gothamist]( [WNYC Studios]( [NJPR]( [WQXR]( [New Sounds]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} from this list](    [update subscription preferences]( New York Public Radio · 160 Varick Street · New York, NY 10013 · USA