NYC Virus Spike Continues in Jewish Areas of Brooklyn, Queens

Customers view books displayed for sale outside a bookstore in the Borough Park neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Sept. 24. — Customers view books displayed for sale outside a bookstore in the Borough Park neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Sept. 24.
Photographer: Amir Hamja/Bloomberg

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By Henry Goldman

September 27, 2020 at 8:14 PM UTC

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New York City health officials say they’re alarmed at a continuing spike in Covid-19 virus transmission in sections of south Brooklyn and Queens with large Orthodox Jewish communities, on the eve of Yom Kippur.