Shoutout to all neighbors who contributed to HNBA this year! Your donation enabled the block association to team up with Uptown Grand Central to bring a little year-end joy to the staff at Northern Manhattan Rehab nursing home on East 125th Street between Park and Lexington.

Like most nursing homes, Northern Manhattan Rehab has been hit hard this year, with patient deaths and many staff falling ill. For the past several weeks, patients have not been able to leave their rooms due to the center’s attempt to keep COVID from spreading — so the staff have been working extra hard to bring holiday joy from room to room.

On the first night of winter, HNBA and Uptown Grand Central sponsored East 125th small business Ginjan Cafe to deliver cases and cases (and cases!) of their signature drink to the front door of the home as part of Ginjan’s Healthcare Heroes program. (Unlike this past summer, when some of the COVID restrictions were lifted, non-staff are currently not allowed to enter the building.)

The staff were then sipping as the Marching Cobras marching band marched by to celebrate Uptown’s Winter Lights glowing for winter:

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