NEW YORK — Tenzing Chime now has one job to do at the vegetable stand where he works, a measure of how much the coronavirus has changed the simplest rituals of neighborhood life.Like him, all his co-workers wear masks, plastic eye shields and gloves. One slides leafy greens into clear plastic bags. Customers point at the bagged vegetables from behind a rope, as if choosing diamonds from a jewelry case.
“I’m not going into the supermarket, around people,” said Sioux Nesi, 52, who was shopping at a market in Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn after running out of vegetables and finding that delivery services were backed up for days. Last week, GrowNYC, the organization that operates the markets, issued a set of stricter guidelines to prevent the crowding that alarmed officials at Union Square and other large markets earlier this month.
“Going to the market felt like a social thing to do, before this outbreak, but right now we are an essential business, keeping the city fed as safely as possible,” said Marcel Van Ooyen, the president and chief executive officer of GrowNYC, who helped patrol a market in Brooklyn on Sunday. “Distance, please!” boomed a masked customer at a market in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, extending a raised palm like a stop sign.
GrowNYC can also help provide safety equipment, Van Ooyen said. And while some greenmarket stands cater to the wealthy — with $5 baggies of herbs and $15 sausages — the organization also provides food boxes for lower-income communities, where it also operates its own stands.
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