CORONAVIRUS & MONKEYPOX
1. HERE’S THE NY SCOOP
THE STATS:
| 1,198, 127 vaccines bivalent vaccines 747new hospitalizations 3,433 new cases |
GOOD NEWS
| 120,000 Children Lifted Out of Poverty in 2021– The Child Tax Credit, a payment issued from the Covid-19 relief package last year reduced poverty across NYC and nationwide. Unfortunately, an extension for the bill was denied this year in Congress. You May Be Saving $4,661 a Year by Working From Home– Manhattan commuters are spending less on food, excursions and happenings around their offices by working from home! Good for your wallets, bad for the city. But hey, at least you can get guac on the side now! |
BAD NEWS
| There Goes the Social Services –The Commissioner of Social Services, Gary Jenkins, is stepping down after a year on the job. His role oversees the city’s homeless shelter system, which has recently been under fire due to the city’s hardening on mental health and migrant crisis. Let’s just say we need someone to fill the role more than a rat czar! |
GIVE US THE SCOOP
2. BEFORE TINDER, NEW YORKERS HAD TO FIND LOVE IN TAXI DANCE BALLROOMS
| BY KEITH TAILLON AKA @KEITHYORKCITY It’s Valentine’s Day! Whether you’re cuffed up, chuffed up or choked up, there’s nothing to satiate your curiosity than the “wooing” methods of lonely New Yorkers back in the day. Read about NYC’s salacious past with love. HOW DID PEOPLE DATE BACK IN THE DAY? There’s something about the notion of being “alone in a crowd” that rings particularly true for many people who wind up in this writhing metropolis. If you were a lonely man in New York in the first half of the 20th century, you could combat this urban loneliness by going to one of a number of “taxi-dance ballrooms.” THESE DANCE HALLS WERE DESIGNED FOR “UNATTACHED MEN WHO YEARN FOR THE VOICE AND SMELL OF THE FEMALE SPECIES” Clustered in and around Times Square, these dance halls were designed specifically for “unattached men who yearn for the voice and smell of the female species,” offering dances with girls for hire. In December 1938, a reporter with the New Yorker visited several taxi-dance ballrooms (so-called because of the girls, like taxis, getting paid by the minute). He first visited Honeymoon Lane on the 2nd floor of 711 7th Ave. He received one free dance ticket from the sidewalk barker outside, then ascended the stairs and was cleared by the bouncer. Inside, he found “eighteen or twenty girls in evening gowns, lined up behind a low rail opposite the entrance,” who quickly cried out to him in desperation to be his dance partner. Have you heard of taxi dance ballrooms before? Tap the link to read more! |
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3. THE FIRE & ICE VARIETY SHOW RETURNS
| Please join us for the RETURN (after a COVID hiatus) of the annual “Fire & Ice” variety show featuring a live band, award-winning dance performers, a hula hoop performer, and a few of the hottest comedians in NYC including Sachin Shaan and Pavan, and Adam Gabel. Tickets and details are at: Sat., March 4 at 7P The Cutting Room 44 East 32nd Street (between Park and Madison) www.FireAndIceNYC.com All proceeds benefit Chemo Comfort, a local NYC charity focused on making life easier for those going through chemotherapy. (use code FIRE for $5 off until 3/2) |
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