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1/ HOMETOWN HEROES: Ticker-tape parade honors workers, NYers who fought COVID pandemic🍎

NYC's 15-month battle wasn't won without doctors, nurses, MTA workers, conductors, restaurant workers, delivery drivers, teachers, food cashiers—essential workers all
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2/ HOMETOWN HEROES: Mayor de Blasio said "this one is going to have a special spirit to it ... celebrating everyday New Yorkers.”

See our special 'Hometown Heroes' section, honoring 13 NYC #EssentialWorkers 🍎 — nydailynews.com/new-york/homet…

Our Story:
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3/ NYC's delivery cyclists, some 80,000 strong, spent the COVID-19 crisis bringing food to homebound, pedaling groceries, riding to hospitals with meals.

On Wednesday, a group of 20 delivery cyclists will ride through the Canyon of Heroes in the parade.🚴
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4/ Daily News Salutes 🍎
HOMETOWN HEROES: Food volunteer Gerald DeYounge ensured no one went hungry during pandemic at “God’s Love We Deliver”

Our special section as NYC honors its essential worker, pandemic-era heroes at COVID Heroes Parade @godslovenyc
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5/ “This is not even a once in a lifetime thing.” 🍎

Anonymous pandemic heroes, after toiling in 16 months of COVID darkness, march along Broadway's Canyon of Heroes in a ticker-tape parade.

“Many people don’t (ever) see this...unbelievable really.”
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6/ Daily News Salutes🍎
HOMETOWN HEROES | Dr. Frank Chung graduated NYU med school early to join fight against COVID @nyugrossman

As resident, he had “as much experience as the senior doctor on the team” in treating it. "A lot of death.”

Special section:
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7/ Here comes the sun ... ☀️🍎 #TickerTapeParade

'Hometown Heroes' special section: nydailynews.com/new-york/homet…
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8/ PHOTOS: 📷 NYC’s Hometown Heroes, frontline pandemic-era workers are honored in New York's Canyon of Heroes ticker-tape parade
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9/ Daily News Salutes 🍎 Special Section
HOMETOWN HEROES | NYC respiratory therapist JaQuitta Robinson kept patients breathing during COVID

“We are the unseen heroes.”
Last year in ER boosted her conviction that helping New Yorkers breathe is her calling.
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10/ #ThankYou 🍎 A parade for frontline workers
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11/ EDITORIAL | New York’s ticker-tape 🎉 salute to the city's COVID heroic essential workers and first responders

They were on the front lines as the bodies piled up.

And they saved us all. Our board writes @NYDNOpinions #EssentialWorkers 🍎
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12/ Daily News Salutes 🍎
HOMETOWN HEROES | FDNY paramedic Christell Cadet won a life-or-death battle with COVID

“Told I could never work as a paramedic again."

Waking from a coma, relearning how to breathe were big victories in her fight against COVID
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13/ Special Section: NYC HOMETOWN HEROES | Pharmacists on the front lines 💊🍎

"It definitely was scary at times, but patients needed their medications." #EssentialWorkers

When COVID hit, our pharmacists had to quickly reformulate how they worked.
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14/ A Daily News Special Section 🍎
HOMETOWN HEROES: Principal Jeff Chetirko never gave up educating kids during pandemic

New York Harbor School lead made sure all kept learning amid pandemic. “Whirlwind ... getting right resources into students’ hands."
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15/ Our Special Section🍎
HOMETOWN HEROES | NYPD Det. David Joel fought through COVID pandemic, battling gun violence

He worked through COVID illness to stop gun smuggling ring in Queens, returns: "More important than ever to stop weapons from coming in.”
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16/ HOMETOWN HEROES | A Daily News special section

Longtime PATH train employee Gene Cala is absolutely, irreversibly, finally retired.

“Without the pandemic, I would have retired, yes … [but he would] do it all over again,” said the selfless man
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17/ HOMETOWN HEROES | A Daily News special COVID-heroes tribute section

After nearly dying from COVID and suffering a miscarriage, FDNY firefighter Mielnik and her husband welcomed Aleksandra in March

“She’s healthy…I couldn’t let a disease scare me.”
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18/ HOMETOWN HEROES | Food pantry director Yvonne Stennett put feeding her NYC neighborhood above all else

Stennett, 66, and her volunteer staff at Community League of the Heights food pantry served at least 500 a day, 4x/wk at peak of pandemic. @CLOTH159
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19/ A Daily News Special Section 🍎
HOMETOWN HEROES | FDNY EMS captain Hugo Sosa battles back from near-fatal COVID case

Coma for 40 days, two strokes, Sosa still relearning how to speak + spell.

“I want to speak about COVID. I want to be a speaker.”
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