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Nets all-star offers relief
Irving donates meals and $323,000 for coronavirus aid
in New York City.
The novel coronavirus particularly
hit home for the Nets
player, after four team members
tested positive for the infection
on March 17 — including
former league MVP
Kevin Durant.
The NBA canceled its season
entirely with just two
months left out of fears of
the virus on March 11, which
came after Utah Jazz center
Rudy Gobert became the first
confirmed case among players
league-wide.
Following that decision,
newly-minted Nets owner
Joe Tsai — who boasts a net
worth of nearly $10 billion —
announced that the organization
would pay hourly employees
of the 19,000-seat
Barclays Center during the
shutdown.
From spirits to spritzers
Two Brooklyn distilleries now producing hand sanitizer
hear how under supply these
hospitals are.”
Colin Spoelman, founder
and CEO of Kings County
Distillery in the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, said it is a bit
more difficult for his company
to produce hand sanitizers
because it requires a
higher distilling to make the
alcohol strong enough.
“It is much more labor intensive
in our distillery,” he
said. “But we made our first
bottle on March 22.”
Spoelman added that
they’ve have trouble getting
containers and label printers
— as many of those businesses
have been shuttered.
Sanitizer is produced with
alcohol, hydrogen peroxide,
and glycerin — which are
becoming difficult to obtain,
said Spoelman, who
noted that sanitizer production
isn’t making much financial
sense, “but during these
crazy times, the math goes
out the window.”
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will help launch the “Share
A Meal” campaign — which
will distribute the quartermillion
meals to needy people
in the New York area, Irving
said.
The 28-year-old point
guard simultaneously announced
the $323,000 donation
to Feeding America
to further help food-insecure
people — along with
a plea for others to donate
as well.
“I am asking my fans,
friends, family and partners
to join me in helping our
communities by donating,”
he said. “And Lineage Logistics
will match $200k of
what we raise together.”
At the time of Irving’s announcement,
there had been
12,339 confirmed diagnoses
Workers at Greenhook Ginsmith in Greenpoint,
have converted operations from dry gin to hand
sanitizer to help supply hospitals during the crisis.
upon their access to
raw materials and supplies,
according to DeAngelo, who
said they are hoping to maintain
several thousand gallons
a week, if possible.
“It’s tough to say how long
our supplies will last — our
first deliveries went to New
York State Hospital,” DeAngelo
said. “It’s really scary to
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By Aidan Graham
Brooklyn Paper
Brooklyn Nets all-star
Kyrie Irving announced his
intention to donate 250,000
meals and $323,000 to help
“marginalized communities
get the food resources they require”
as they work to combat
the spread of COVID-19.
“Seeing the effects of
COVID-19 reach our loved
ones, our schools, our jobs,
and access to food has really
impacted me,” Irving said in
an Instagram post. “Thank
you to everyone on the front
line working to keep all of
us safe, healthy, and fed.
Together we can change the
world one small gesture at a
time.”
Along with the food-relief
organizations Feeding America,
City Harvest NYC, and
By Todd Maisel
for Brooklyn Paper
With bars and restaurants
throughout the state shuttered
amid the outbreak of coronavirus,
some Brooklyn distilleries
have begun producing
a different, more urgently
needed alcohol-based substance
— hand sanitizer.
“We’ve converted all of
our production to hand sanitizer
as all the bars and restaurants
who were buying our
spirits are shut down,” said
Steve DeAngelo, owner of
Greenhook Ginsmiths in
Greenpoint.
Sanatizer stock at hospitals
and doctors offices have
been emptied, and shelves at
pharmacies and supermarkets
have been barren as locals
look to stock up on the
germ-killing substance during
the pandemic, which has
infected thousands of New
Yorkers.
DeAngelo and his rejiggered
gin making operation
Nets point guard Kyrie Irving
Photo by Noah K. Murray/Reuters
will donate 250,000
meals and $323,000 to
help needy communities
amid the outbreak of
COVID-19.
have been able to produce
4,200 gallons since they made
the switch, and it has since
been completely bought up by
area hospitals, he said.
“Our first shipments went
out on March 21, but it’s not
as much as we’d like,” the
spirit aficionado said.
Their ability to fulfill orders
from hospitals will depend
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