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 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-inchief  
 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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