There are more covid-19 cases per capita in the Bronx than any other New York borough.
. But, he said, he finds inspiration in the public’s response. “The daily applause isn’t noise. It’s music. It’s awareness,” he said of New Yorkers’ 7 p.m. ritual saluting the city’s essential workers.
Torres, the city council member, noted that before the crisis, this community went mostly unacknowledged. “Now,” he said, “it’s inescapable: The Bronx as the essential borough is staring everyone in the face. My hope is that a post-covid-19 world will do right by the Bronx.”Cary Goodman, a schoolteacher who became executive director of the business-improvement district around Yankee Stadium, said he hasn’t seen transformative positive change here since 1974.
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