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COURIER L 4 IFE, APRIL 10-16, 2020
The cemetery opened its gates to allow more access. Google
Green-Wood Cemetery
opens additional gates
BY JESSICA PARKS
A Kensington resident’s
letter advocating for weekday
use of Green-Wood Cemetery’s
additional entrances
garnered more than 100 signatures,
prompting cemetery
offi cials to agree to open all
four gates to fresh air-seekers
amid the current outbreak.
On March 14, local resident
Caroline Loomis penned a letter
to Green-Wood Cemetery,
Sunset Park Councilman Carlos
Menchaca and Park Slope
Councilman Brad Lander
asking that more entrances
be opened to accommodate
quarantined visitors. Loomis
sent her letter four days later,
along with 125 signatures and
messages of gratitude.
“They said that the kind
and supportive notes people
included in the letter were
wonderful to read, and that
they were working on a way
to make it happen,” Loomis
said.
Extending use of the Fort
Hamilton Parkway Entrance
will provide greater access to
Kensington residents who either
have a 10-block trek to the
main entrance or might take a
subway to one of the borough’s
more transit-accessible green
spaces such as Sunset Park or
Prospect Park, Loomis said.
She also spoke of the signifi
cance of Green-Wood Cemetery
as a place of refuge for
those who may need some psychological
relief from all the
stress that has come with the
outbreak of the coronavirus.
“COVID-19 is having, and
will continue to have, real psychological
and emotional impacts
on everyone. It’s a drop
in the bucket, but I think more
access to green space will benefi
t many people,” Loomis
said. “Fresh air, quiet rustling
leaves, blooming fl owers
— this stuff is medicine for us
when sadness, fear, and stress
are running high.”
Play-grounded
City playgrounds closed
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
All playgrounds in the
city will be closed to stem
the spread of the novel
coronavirus, because
young New Yorkers have
consistently failed to keep
six feet apart from each
other, Governor Andrew
Cuomo said April 1.
“You still see too
many situations with too
much density by young
people,” Cuomo said.
“I’ve said this 100 different
ways, the compliance
is still not where it
should be.”
Parks will remain
open, however, allowing
quarantined New
Yorkers some space to
breathe, the state’s commander
in-chief said.
“Use the open space
in a park, walk around,
get some sun, great,” he
said. “No density, no basketball
games, no close
contact, no violation of
social distancing, period.
That’s the rule.”
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