🌱COVID Fear Grips NYC + Wrongful Parked Car Arrest |Daily Digest

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16 December, 2021

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Happy Friday, New York City! Well, let's be honest — it's not so happy. As one Twitter user put it, this week felt "very much like the diet version of the day when we realized COVID was real." Anxiety washed over New York City as coronavirus cases surged to nearly 4,000 a day and the omicron variant spread. New Yorkers waited in long lines for tests, expressed their anxieties in TikToks and tuned in again to news conferences by the mayor and governor detailing another grim COVID winter. Fear Grips NYC As COVID Surges, Omicron Spreads A boy watched his father get arrested by a swarm of NYPD officers who were enraged he could not move a double-parked car that was not his. "Apparently you can be arrested in Brooklyn for refusing to move a car you don't own," a lawyer representing the father in a new civil case said. Bed-Stuy Cops Arrest Dad Over Parked Car He Didn't Own: Suit Grand Central Terminal is going to get a giant new neighbor. A 1,500-foot-tall skyscraper will replace the Grand Hyatt hotel and hulk over the famed train station. Skyscraper Towering Over Grand Central Approved By City Council Best From Around Patch: A plane crash 61 years ago claimed 135 lives and forever changed Park Slope. Blackened coins found in a boy's pocket after the crash helped fund Brooklyn Methodist's pediatric intensive care unit. (Park Slope Patch)An off-duty NYPD lieutenant exchanged gunfire during a fatal shooting at a Queens nightclub. He was being hospitalized. (Astoria-Long Island City Patch)The Prospect Park Vale will get an amphitheater, a restored children's pool and a pollinator meadow. It's part of a $40 million restoration of Brooklyn's largest park. (Prospect Heights-Crown Heights Patch)Keep up with your neighborhood by signing up to a local newsletter: https://patch.com/subscribe And now, today's weather: Alternating clouds and sun. High: 59 Low: 40. 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