Family of elderly coronavirus-assault victim notified about death nine hours later
The family of the elderly woman who was assaulted died at Woodhull Hospital on Saturday are outraged after not being notified about her death for over nine hours after she died and after finding out the way she died from reading an article on The New York Daily News.
Janie Marshall, 86, was at the hospital, which is officially called NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull, in Bedford-Stuyvesant for a bowel blockage when she held onto a metal pole in the hallway.
Cassandra Lundy, 32, had been sitting on a bed nearby and got upset that Marshall got too close to her, which she said was going against social distancing for COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus.
Lundy hit Marshall, causing her to fall to the ground. She died later and when the hospital contacted her family, it told them that she had died of heart failure.
Marshall’s niece, Antoinette Leonard-Jean Charles, who lives in Tennessee, said that they hadn’t told her or the rest of their family about the assault. The family didn’t find out about the circumstances of her death until reading about it in the news.
“This is the hospital trying to evade and not be truthful,” Leonard-Jean Charles told the Daily News. “If they had handled it appropriately — then this woman wouldn’t be home with her family. I am absolutely completely infuriated that she got an appearance summons, and she beat an 86-year-old woman.”
Lundy was issued a disorderly conduct summons and then sent home.
“All I want is answers. All I want is a clear understanding as to what happened to my aunt and why. And I want ms Lundy held accountable if she was the reason why my aunt died,” Leonard Jean-Charles told reporters.
Read more about this in this article: The New York Daily News
Brooklyn Tech Alumni Donate 800 bottles of hand sanitizer to Hunts Point Market
The Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation is donating 800 personal size bottles of Purell to IBT Local 202 for distribution among its members working at the Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx.
The Market is the main hub for the distribution of fresh vegetables and fruit to grocery stores in New York City. These are essential workers still making deliveries.
The Alumni Foundation purchased the Purell in preparation for its annual homecoming which takes place at Brooklyn Technical High School every March. The Foundation postponed homecoming until after the epidemic is resolved.“We are happy that the Purell we purchased has been repurposed to help keep these essential workers safe as they deliver much-needed food for New Yorkers during this time of crisis,” said Larry Cary, President of the Foundation.
The Alumni Foundation is the most successful public high school alumni organization with 50,000 members. Brooklyn Technical High School is one of the city’s specialized high schools.
NYPD breaks up outdoor wedding at Marine Park amid COVID-19 social distancing
The New York Police Department had to break up an outdoor wedding of around 70 people yesterday in Marine Park due to concerns over spreading the coronavirus.
The Parks Department was the one that notified the NYPD, and by the time that the police arrived on the scene people were already starting to pack up and get ready to leave.
According to Parks Department spokeswoman Anessa Hodgson, the party did not have a permit, which wouldn’t have mattered anyway because the Parks Department suspended all permits for gatherings of 50 or more people on March 16. All other permits were suspended soon after.
No arrests or summons were made, though the event was in violation of New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo’s and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s order against all large gatherings — or, honestly, any gatherings at all, by this point.
“We will continue to remain vigilant in all of our parks to help ensure that park-goers are observing the rules and being safe,” Hodgson said.
Read more about this in this article: The New York Daily News
NYC Department of Health releases COVID-19 concentration map
The New York City Department of Health has finally released neighborhood-by-neighborhood data on the number of coronavirus patients and central to southern Brooklyn has one of the highest concentrations in the city.
The data was released in the form of a color-coded map with a key that explained which section on the map corresponds to which neighborhood and what each shade represents.
It only shows the number of tests that turned back positive, not necessarily all of the coronavirus cases in the city.
The highest data group is 51.26% concentrated and those neighborhoods are Borough Park, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Williamsburg, Bushwick and Greenpoint.
Sunset Park, Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay, Canarsie, Flatlands and East New York are between 46.34% and 51.26% and Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope are between 40.85% and 46.34%.
The lowest concentration is the group of between 30.12% and 40.85% in Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge.
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