Restaurants and other groups have organized to feed the frontline NYC health and medical workers and emergency service workers during their extra-long hours of saving our lives nd keeping us safe in these stressful days. You can support the effort with donations, or your business for take-out or delivery. Especially donations. Here's an NYCOTC shout-out, and how you … [Read more...] about Feed the Frontlines: Food for Healthcare & Emergency Service Workers
Crisis Resources
NYC Free: Halal Meals
NYC is providing FREE Halal meals for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at 32 NYC school locations across all five boroughs in neighborhoods with large Muslim populations. These are pre-packaged Grab & Go meals. As with other FREE meals at 400 NYC school sites, no identification is required. If you are needy, you can get a FREE … [Read more...] about NYC Free: Halal Meals
NYC Update: Grocery Delivery Guide
There are long lines waiting to get into NYC supermarkets and grocery stores, even during the dedicated early morning shopping hours for seniors and immuno-compromised. So more of us are ordering grocery delivery. Here is a guide to delivery by NYC markets, including meal kits, prepared meals, and such household necessities as cleaning supplies and personal hygiene … [Read more...] about NYC Update: Grocery Delivery Guide
Virtual Help for Minority/Women Owned Businesses & Non-Profits
Small businesses, especially minority-owned, including the minority known as women, may need more help and advice than others. NYC Comptroller Scott M. Stringer is doing a series of FREE online workshops for Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprises. The goal is to help them navigate the resources from the federal, state, and NYC governments and the … [Read more...] about Virtual Help for Minority/Women Owned Businesses & Non-Profits
Update: Where to Get a Job Now
If you are one of the millions of New Yorkers who have lost your job or had your hours cut, you may be able to get a job now at one of the many companies struggling to keep up with increased workloads. New York City is hiring temporary employees immediately to work in public and private hospitals and deliver meals to housebound New Yorkers. The hospital jobs are … [Read more...] about Update: Where to Get a Job Now
How to Apply for Unemployment & Food Stamps
Filing update: Starting today, Friday, April 10, New York State has a new unemployment application website and application system to replace the one that was overwhelmed and crashed by hundreds of thousands of people applying. The new system no longer requires you to telephone the Dept. of Labor after applying on line. Instead, you will be telephoned back within 72 … [Read more...] about How to Apply for Unemployment & Food Stamps
NYC Update: Gov’t Resources for Help
If you've lost your job and worried about paying your rent or utility bills, a small business worried about paying your employees, exhibiting symptoms or Covid-19, or just need somebody to talk to, these NYC and NY State resources, including hotlines and FREE meals, will help us all survive these stressful, even lonely, days. Federal stimulus payments: To help … [Read more...] about NYC Update: Gov’t Resources for Help
Special Shopping Hours for Seniors & Vulnerable
Supermarkets and others selling food, health and cleaning productsare offering special shopping hours for seniors and others who are most vulnerable to Coronavirus. In NYC that includes Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Key Food, Fairway, Stop & Shop, Duane Reade/Walgreens. The special hours are before the stores open to the general public, with shelves which have been … [Read more...] about Special Shopping Hours for Seniors & Vulnerable
How to Get Help for Your Small Business in NYC
NYC is offering financial help for small businesses losing money because of Covid-19. Small businesses with fewer than five employees can get a grant to cover 40% of payroll costs for two months to help retain employees. Those are the mom-and-pop stores which remain the lifeblood of NYC. Businesses with between six and 100 employees can apply for zero interest loans of … [Read more...] about How to Get Help for Your Small Business in NYC
Protecting Yourself: Things to Do Now
Instead of scouring stores for toilet paper and anti-bacterial wipes, pasta and bread, here are five things you should be doing now and shopping for now, just in case stores close, you are quarantined or NYC is locked down. These tips apply whether you are in NYC or anywhere else affected by the Coronavirus pandemic, which means everywhere. Follow our new … [Read more...] about Protecting Yourself: Things to Do Now
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