FROM US TO YOU
A note to our beloved readers
COURIER LIFE, MARCH 27-APRIL 2, 2020 23
At Schneps Media, we
know that you and your fellow
restaurateurs are struggling
through this crisis and
we want to help. Our plan is at
no cost to you, will begin immediately
and will continue
‘post-crisis’. The plan comes
in two steps.
Step one is to offer you a
listing in a directory that we
will distribute to all of our
New York City and Long Island
readers across print,
digital and email newsletters.
The listing will communicate
to patrons the delivery and
pick up services you are offering
during the crisis. We will
also share a link to your website,
menu and/or social channels.
We ask in exchange for
the promotion of your restaurant
that you offer our readers
a discount of at least 10% off of
their orders.
We know that this crisis is
just the beginning of the struggle
to keep your restaurants
afl oat, so we are creating a way
to continue to support your establishment
in the long term.
We will promote your restaurant
through the Schneps
Media network and on The
World’s Fare website promoted
throughout our media outlets
and a citywide PR campaign.
We welcome you to join
us as we work with you to
rebuild your businesses together.
Please sign up by visiting
www.theworldsfare.
nyc and complete the Restaurant
Sign-Up form. Together
we will go far!
Schneps Media publishes
over 70 newspapers, magazines,
events, websites and
podcasts throughout Queens,
Manhattan, Brooklyn, The
Bronx, Westchester, and Long
Island.
The World’s Fare is a celebration
of diversity through
cuisine. For the past two
years, the World’s Fare has
welcomed over 20,000 individuals
to Citi Field to enjoy cuisine
from around the world.
BY VICTORIA & JOSHUA
SCHNEPS
CO-PUBLISHERS
As New York City’s largest
source of local news, Schneps
Media, a family-owned and
operated company, is committed
to continuing to provide
you with vital information
on the coronavirus pandemic
and its local impact on every
aspect of your life.
We are ensuring that
Brooklyn Paper and our more
than 70 daily, weekly, monthly
and specialty newspapers and
magazines are getting into
the hands of news-hungry
New Yorkers.
We will continue to be in
the subways.
We are adding to our distribution
door-to-door in residential
buildings. You can
also fi nd us at supermarkets
and health care centers. We
are where you are!
If you can’t leave home,
you can get all the news you
need through our website,
brooklynpaper.com and read
our digital editions. Stay upto
date with the latest local
news.
No other news outlet in the
New York City market has the
power and reach that we provide.
Our team of reporters
and editors are working 24/7
throughout the crisis to bring
you the facts to keep you and
your family safe, sound and
in touch with our city.
We are grateful to our
readers, advertising partners
and vendors who continue to
support us during this unprecedented
time.
We have been humbled by
all your messages of support
and kindness. Send us “acts
of kindness” that you experience
to bpnewsroom@schnepsmedia.
com.
We are proud to call the
New York City area our home,
and we will continue to serve
you!
Be well and stay healthy!
We’re here for you.
Attention all restaurants: Brooklyn Paper and
our partner The World’s Fare are here to help
Running out of time and breath
Ten thousand ventilators,
breathing devices
designed to save people
with critical respiratory issues,
are stashed away in the
federal emergency stockpile at
an undisclosed location. They
sit there ready for the moment
when a major pandemic would
require their use.
That moment has arrived,
and New York City fi nds itself
in the heart of the tragedy.
The number of coronavirus
patients is accelerating; Governor
Andrew Cuomo said
the number of new infections
seems to be doubling every
three days.
Not everyone who contracts
coronavirus will need a ventilator.
About 80% of those who
get the illness will never show
symptoms, or will become sick
and heal at home.
Not all who wind up in the
hospital will need a ventilator,
but a good amount of hospitalized
patients — especially seniors
and those with underlying
medical issues — will
need them to survive.
New York state now expects
that 140,000 people will
need hospital space when the
pandemic hits its peak here.
But the state will also need
more than 30,000 ventilators
to treat the most critically
ill.
Cuomo’s scrambling to
help these patients, but he conceded
Tuesday that the state
needs federal help immediately
to stem the crisis.
As of Tuesday morning, the
federal government provided
New York state with 400 ventilators
— not nearly enough to
meet the need. Another 4,000
ventilators were promised
for the state, with 2,000 earmarked
for the city.
It’s still not enough.
More ventilators must be
built to meet the demand, and
our nation has the apparatus
and manpower within the
auto industry to churn out all
the ventilators we need in a
matter of weeks.
The problem is that no one
is directing the auto industry
to do it.
Just one person has that
authority — the president of
the United States.
The president can, under
the Defense Production Act,
order companies in a time of
war or a similar crisis to build
whatever the country needs to
achieve success.
President Trump has yet to
utilize the act when it comes to
building ventilators.
What is he waiting for?
Coronavirus will not
magically disappear. Drug
therapy trials will not spare
everyone. Ventilators have
and will keep critically ill
patients breathing and save
their lives.
They are needed now. They
were needed weeks ago as the
crisis loomed on the horizon.
Still, the president holds
his breath — as too many New
Yorkers lose their own.
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