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Community members leave flowers around the 36th Street subway station. Residents gathered to pray and call for an end to gun violence after a shooting in the station on April 12

Sunset Park residents hung flowers around the entrance to the 36th Street subway station at a vigil one week after a gunman injured 29 people at the station. The community is gathering together to take its first steps forward after the attack disrupted the close-knit neighborhood.

Featured: Elsa Samaniego, Promotora (interviewed) Nicole Rojas,Community Organizer, Steven Espinoza, Community Advocate in background)

Featured: Lorena Kourousias

Featured: image (Lorena Kourousias, volunteers)

Featured: Nicole Rojas, Community Organizer

Vast disparities in immunization levels persist between the city’s communities.

Decenas de familias inmigrantes salieron este miércoles a las calles del Distrito para alzar su voz a favor de un camino hacia la ciudadanía para miles de trabajadores esenciales

A man exits a mobile vaccination van after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine administered by NYC Test & Trace Corps in partnership with Mixteca, a community organization serving primarily Spanish-speaking and indigenous Latin American populations in Sunset Park.

Maria Meneses, left, speaks with Mixteca community organizer Nicole Rojas while waiting to get a COVID-19 vaccination in a mobile vaccination van parked on a street in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, Monday, March 29, 2021, in New York. As part of New York City’s ongoing efforts to increase access to the COVID-19 vaccine citywide, NYC Test & Trace Corps added mobile vaccination to its community vaccine clinic program Monday, launching a clinic-on-wheels with community partner Mixteca, a community organization serving the Spanish-speaking and indigenous Latin American population in the area.

New York state Democrats say there are at least 275,000 immigrants who would benefit from a $2.1 billion Excluded Workers Fund.

New York state residents over 30 will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations starting Tuesday, and everyone over 16 will be eligible starting April 6, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday.

As the sun peered through a cloudy afternoon Saturday, Lizette Canongo, 20, and her mother, Gabriela, sold the last of their tinga—a specialty of stewed, shredded chicken from Puebla, Mexico, her mother’s home state—at Sunset Park in Brooklyn

With many in New York still struggling to find appointments for the COVID-19 vaccines, the city is now partnering with community organizations, like Mixteca, to place mobile vaccine buses in neighborhoods in the most need of help.

Sunset Park nonprofit works to get Latin community inoculated against COVID-19