arrow Corona resident Delphina Olvera selling flowers outside Our Lady of Sorrows Church on Easter Sunday. She said several church members died from COVID. Cindy Rodriguez / Gothamist
On a gray Easter Sunday in Corona, Queens, dozens of people, all of them masked, gathered outside Our Lady of Sorrows Church, the overflow crowd from the mass service underway inside.
The community could use the solace offered by Easter’s theme of renewal after a bruising year of trauma and loss. More than 500 people have died from COVID-19 in Corona, that’s more than any other ZIP code in the city. Several of the deceased attended this church, according to Delphina Olvera, who sold peach-colored roses and white lilies to passersby.
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera was an anchor and correspondent for CNBC when she received an alert that the FBI arrested Bernie Madoff in connection with a massive Ponzi scheme on December 11, 2008. Moments later, she was on air announcing the breaking news.
Caruso-Cabrera, who is now a candidate for NYC comptroller in the June 22 Democratic primaries, recalled in a phone interview with the Forward on Wednesday what happened behind the scenes – from the moment she got the news until announcing it on live television.
“We didn’t realize just how big a Ponzi scheme it was at the time. So we did it second to a story about Bank of America laying off thousands of employees because of the financial crisis,” Caruso-Cabrera said about her communication with her producer at the breaking news desk before going on air. “I said to the desk, ‘You are sure you don’t want to lead with the Ponzi arrest?’ And they were like, ‘No, we have Bank of America – many more people are affected.
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