April 3–9, 2020 Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 5
Sign Up Now!
New York City
Schools
Account
schools.nyc.gov/nycsa
Get the latest about coronavirus
and NYC Public Schools, remote
learning, free breakfast and lunch,
and more.
Election delayed for virus
Cuomo postpones Bushwick Council race to June 23
Endorsement in State Senate race
Working Families Party backs Democratic Socialist upstart
We’ve Got You Covered!
With the outbreak of the coronavirus in New York, we are committed to
keeping your immediate spaces clean, and bacteria and germ free.
We have been deemed an “essential service provider” as there is a
great need to keep offices and homes disinfected and sanitized. New
Beginning Cleaners is on the front line helping you fight this battle.
THE NEW BEGINNING CLEANERS DIFFERENCE!
1. Our Cleaning Specialists are trained to adhere to strict guidelines on keeping you and your home
germ free — (shoe removal, not shaking hands, sanitizing hands upon entering your space etc...)
2. We are screening all our Cleaning Specialist to ensure they display no symptoms of illness before
their work day.
3. We are rescheduling any customer who either they or their family members are sick.
4. We are using EPA registered cleaning solutions that meet CDC Guidelines to not only clean but to
disinfect & sanitize your space
5. Our Cleaning Specialist pay special attention to surfaces that harbor
germs: door knobs, counters, light switches, remote controls etc...
With our sanitization services, we will also provide all offices and
commercial spaces Certificates of Sanitization to ensure your
customers know that you are being proactive during this time by having us
employ proper sanitization measures.
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
Governor Andrew Cuomo
has postponed the April 28
special election to replace
former Bushwick councilman
Rafael Espinal’s seat
to June 23 to avoid further
spread of the coronavirus.
The state’s commander-inchief
issued an executive order
on March 28 moving all elections
happening on April 28
to the summer date in order to
align with the regular state and
federal primary elections and
prevent people from gathering
during the ongoing pandemic.
NAVY YARD...
We Can Do This Together!
We are New Yorkers and naturally resilient. We face issues head-on. There is
no better way to safeguard yourself, family, friends and coworkers by ensuring
that they too are taking cleaning measures like you are.
We want to keep your community and network of people safe!
NEW BEGINNING CLEANERS LLC
This certifies that
YOUR BUSINESS NAME
is being disinfected and sanitized
regularly with EPA registered cleaning
solutions that meet FDA and CDC
guidelines and standards to aid in the
prevention of COVID-19
Julian Bannister
Co-Founder
Yannick Jules-
Bannister
Co-Founder
New Beginning Cleaners is offering the following:
15% OFF
20% OFF their cleaning service.
receive 25% OFF when when your referral gets their
first clean.
$25 OFF their first
clean.
BOOK NOW:
www.newbeginningcleaners.com/quotes
EMAIL: info@newbeginningcleaners.com
CALL/TEXT: 347-413-5177 *Promotion ends 05/15/2020
design was up to code, according
to Bednark.
The three organizations
aim to make between 15,000
to 18,000 of the plastic masks
per day and planned to complete
more than 100,000 by March
31. The city will then buy the
masks from the companies
and distribute them to hospitals
across the Five Boroughs,
according to officials.
De Blasio praised the companies
and the workers for
stepping up to the plate within
less than a week.
“Six days ago, none of this
existed, no one even had the
idea and bang, there’s a production
line right now,” de Blasio
said during a visit to the makeshift
manufacturing facility
Thursday afternoon. “This is
like a wartime factory, a factory
from scratch.”
Hizzoner plans to unveil
similar city-based production
of much-needed ventilators
and other medical equipment
soon, he said.
“We’ll be showing you this
week how ventilator production
is starting as well,” he said.
“Whether it’s face masks, the
surgical masks, ventilators,
you’re going to see a lot more
produced right here.”
Continued from page 1
That also includes a handful
of special elections for federal
and state seats as well as the
presidential primary.
“We are continuing to advance
emergency measures
that reduce density as much
as possible, and to that end we
are going to delay the presidential
primary election until
June because it’s not wise to
be bringing large numbers of
people to one place to vote,”
Cuomo said in a statement.
The governor updated his
decree on Monday, adding that
only candidates who were already
eligible to appear on the
ballot for April 28 would still
be on the June 23 vote. He also
rescheduled the borough president
race in Queens, which was
supposed to happen on March
24, to the June date.
The move followed calls
from upstart candidate for
the seat Sandy Nurse, who
on March 20 tweeted her support
of moving the election to
June, saying that Bushwick
residents were more concerned
about their health and
financial stability during this
unprecedented crisis.
Her opponent, local district
leader Darma Diaz, said it was
up to Cuomo or Mayor Bill de
Blasio, but noted that having
the election sooner would allow
someone to take the reigns
and better manage the district
during a time of crisis.
Council Speaker Corey
Johnson has overseen the
district ever since Espinal
stepped down suddenly
in January to take a job heading
the Freelancers Union.
“This is the right move,”
Nurse tweeted. “Democracy
can and will take place, but
not at the cost of putting lives
at risk. Glad to see this happened.”
By Ben Verde
Brooklyn Paper
The Working Families
Party will endorse Democratic
Socialist Jabari Brisport
in the race for State Senate
District 25, the group told
the Brooklyn Paper.
The endorsement from
the progressive organization
gives the schoolteacheractivist
another leg up in the
crowded field to replace retiring
state senate stalwart
Velmanette Montgomery,
who has served the district
stretching from Red Hook
through Park Slope to Bedford
Stuyvesant since 1985.
“Particularly in this moment
of crisis, New Yorkers see how
important it is to elect representatives
who will work overtime
to protect all of us,” said
New York Working Families
Party Director Sochie Nnaemeka.
“Jabari is unequivocally
that champion.”
The party pointed to the
candidate’s experience as an
organizer and focus on issues
such as criminal justice reform,
funding for NYCHA and public
schools as the reasoning behind
their endorsement.
“As a teacher, union member,
and lifelong resident of the
district, he is already an effective
grassroots advocate for his
neighbors,” Nnaemeka said.
The party played a significant
role in flipping the New
York State Senate to Democratic
control in 2018, helping
to unseat numerous incumbents
in both parties.
While the endorsement
will give Brisport a boost,
he still faces an uphill battle
towards election day on
June 23.
Meanwhile, Nnaemeka
maintains that Brisport’s
grassroots strategy and ties
to the community (he is a lifelong
Prospect Heights resident
and teaches in Crown
Heights) have resulted in the
campaign best suited to win
the nomination.
Jabari Brisport is running in State Senate District 25.
Photo by Jabari Brisport for New York
/www.BrooklynPaper.com
/quotes
link
/www.BrooklynPaper.com
/nycsa
/quotes
link