WORKING TOGETHER FOR A CLEAN, SAFE AND THRIVING
MORRIS PARK AVENUE COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR!
Morris Park Business Improvement District
BRONX TIMES REPORTER,BTR JULY 31-AUGUST 6, 2020 15
Morris Park and Van Nest
We made progress, but we are still below Bronx and national averages!
As of July 28, 2020:
National self-response rate 62.6%
NY State self-response rate: 58.1%
Bronx self-response rate: 55.3%
Self-response rates in the MPBID district:
Van Nest and Morris Park
Census tract 232: 45.7% Census tract 244: 49.0%
Census tract 236: 44.8% Census tract 252: 50.5%
Census tract 238: 39.6% Census tract 254: 50.2%
Census tract 250: 49.8% Census tract 288: 53.6%
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We need to do better with your help
Help your neighborhood now, for the next 10 years!
Over the next decade, lawmakers, business owners, and many others
will use 2020 Census data to make critical decisions affecting your
neighborhood: new schools, new clinics, new roads, and more services
for families, older adults, and children. Each year, Census data informs
federal funding for more than 100 programs, including school lunches,
law enforcement, first responders and education.
Fill the Census online at my2020census.gov
or by phone English: 844-330-2020; Spanish: 844-468-2020;
Arabic: 844-416-2020; Chinese 844-391-2020
National Shortage of Coinage in Circulation
As per the United States Mint Statement on Circulating
Coins of July 23, 2020, the impact of COVID-19 has
disrupted the normal supply channels of circulating
coinage – the pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters that
the American people and businesses use in their dayto
day transactions. Your hep is needed!
Precautions taken to slow the spread of the virus
resulted in reduced retail sales activity and significantly
decreased deposits from third-party coin processors.
Even though there is an adequate amount of coins in
the economy, the slowed pace of circulation means that
coinage is sometimes not readily available where
needed. We are experiencing this in our local
communities, and we are asking for your help in
improving this coin supply issue!
You can do so by paying for things with exact change
and by returning spare change to circulation. Until coin
circulation patterns return to normal, it may bore difficult
for retailers and small businesses to accept cash
payments. For millions of Americans, cash is the only
form of payment and cash transactions rely on coins to
make change.
US Mint asks that the American public start
spending their coins, depositing them, or
exchanging them for currency at financial
institutions, or taking them to a coin redemption
kiosk.
The coin supply problem can be solved with each of
us doing our part!
As important as it is to get more coins circulating, safety
is paramount. Please follow all safety and health
guidelines and rules when visiting retailers, small
businesses, grocery stores and financial institutions.
For more information, check US Mint Statement on
Circulating Coins of July 23, 2020:
https://www.usmint.gov/news/pressreleases/
statement-on-circulating-coins
/statement-on-circulating-coins
/statement-on-circulating-coins
/statement-on-circulating-coins
/my2020census.gov