In this year’s special edition of Vote 4 The Best Editors Pick, the winner for Best Biz for Patron Safety is The Red Hook! Red Hook has been serving the Ferndale and Detroit community for about 10 years. But above and beyond that, Sandi Heaselgrave, the owner of Red Hook, expressed her excitement about a recent renovation that included a new door built into the Ferndale storefront. Red Hook new storefront. The Ferndale location is where Red Hook’s full production bakery is located.

FILE- In this Sept. 2, 2020 file photo, parents bring their children to participate in an outdoor learning demonstration to display methods schools can use to continue on-site education during the coronavirus pandemic, at P.S. 15 in the Red Hook neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. New York City's already delayed school year is scheduled to start remotely Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020 in a soft opening that will serve as a prologue to the return of students to physical classrooms on the following week. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

(AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)NEW YORK – New York City's already delayed school year is scheduled to start remotely Wednesday in a soft opening that will serve as a prologue to the return of students to physical classrooms next week. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, teachers and administrators are still working furiously to prepare for the physical return of students to classrooms. “We’ve been talking about it for weeks and weeks,” he said at his coronavirus briefing on Tuesday. “School is opening on Monday the 21st.”The city plans to do random testing of students and staff for the virus starting on Oct. 1. The mayor said Monday that a COVID-19 “situation room” would be set up to respond swiftly to school coronavirus cases.

The swift emptying of commercial space marks a sharp departure from the real estate market that boomed in New York, Chicago and other cities in recent years. A weak commercial real estate market can mean layoffs among its estimated 3.6 million workers and at companies providing goods and services to real estate firms. Still, some real estate experts and landlords see this as just another boom-and-bust cycle, although the bust is happening at lightning speed. That will determine how rapidly the real estate market recovers. And while some of the changes in commercial real estate could be permanent, Calanog expects the overall market to do what it always does recover.