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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, MAY 10, 2020
BY JESSICA PARKS
After initially launching
without any outreach to
southern Brooklyn, Mayor
Bill de Blasio announced
that the city’s face mask distribution
program will be expanded
to include sites in the
previously-snubbed areas of
the borough.
“We are now going to
ramp up a plan and it will
take effect starting immediately
to distribute 7.5 million
face coverings, meaning,
wherever you turn, you’re
going to be offered a face covering,”
de Blasio said during
his May 4 briefi ng. “And it’s
going to be on an ongoing basis
for weeks to come to make
sure that everyone has what
they need.”
The move comes after
southern Brooklyn lawmakers
blasted the mayor last
week for excluding their
neighborhoods from the initial
effort to hand out 100,000
face masks at dozens of parks
throughout the city at scheduled
times through May 5.
“Yet again, City Hall forgets
that southern Brooklyn
exists,” state Sen. Andrew
Gounardes told Brooklyn
Paper. “With so much open
space in southern Brooklyn,
including the largest park
in all of Brooklyn — Marine
Park — it’s outrageous to be
shut out of City Hall’s mask
distribution program.”
Following the program’s
debut, Gounardes organized
a letter signed by 16 fellow
pols calling on Hizzoner to
provide masks to more than
one million residents in the
southern half of the borough,
where many of the city’s essential
workers and underserved
populations reside.
“This glaring omission
leaves out more than a million
southern Brooklynites
— including many essential
workers, senior citizens,
non-English speakers, individuals
with high-health
risks, and NYCHA residents
— without access to a protective
face covering,” read the
letter, delivered to de Blasio
on Thursday and later obtained
by Brooklyn Paper.
Days later, de Blasio announced
that volunteers,
who will continue to hand
RECONSTRUCTION: The city will begin distributing masks in the southern half of the borough, after
snubbing the area with the program’s initial rollout. Photo by Todd Maisel
out complimentary face coverings
at city parks, will
broaden distribution to include
NYCHA buildings, Department
of Education-sanctioned
“grab-and-go” meal
hubs, citywide ferry terminals,
grocery stores, and
Mitchell-Lama buildings.
Southern Brooklyn
Councilman Mark Treyger
commended the expansion
— especially the addition
of DOE meal sites — but lamented
that his constituents
have claimed the added Coney
Island locations are not
yet equipped with the handouts.
“They went to some of
the schools in Coney Island
and no one had the masks,”
Treyger told Brooklyn Paper,
adding also that DOE
staffers were unaware of
the mayor’s announcement.
“That really speaks to a
level of disconnect between
City Hall and their staff.”
The councilman said
he’s reached out to City Hall,
and that they are “working
to rectify the situation.” He
also hopes the city will consider
distributing masks
on the Coney Island Boardwalk,
and within other public
spaces in his district that
tend to draw crowds, instead
of concentrating resources
in the city’s wealthier zip
codes.
Gone south
Mask distribution program expands
into southern Brooklyn after backlash
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