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RI DAILY

Manhattan's little, quieter island and beyond

Reporting Roosevelt Island since sunrise.

TONIGHT: A COVID Memorial Beams Faces of Those Lost on the Brooklyn Bridge

Beginning tonight at 7:45, faces of New Yorkers lost to COVID-19 will be projected on the Brooklyn Bridge. “We’re going to remember the people we’ve lost. We’re going to hold them close,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said March 8, when...

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COVID Memorial Collage, The CITY

Beginning tonight at 7:45, faces of New Yorkers lost to COVID-19 will be projected on the Brooklyn Bridge.

“We’re going to remember the people we’ve lost. We’re going to hold them close,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said March 8, when announcing the memorial. “But it’s also a time to think about everything that this city has gone through and the strength, and the compassion, the love that New Yorkers have shown.”

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