NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A young cancer survivor is on a mission to inspire others and pay it forward… with socks. CBS2’s Vanessa Murdock introduces us to an incredible girl who hopes delivering fuzzy socks to other kids fighting cancer also brings them hope for a healthy future. It’s a special delivery by a very special someone: cancer survivor, and author, 7-year-old Aryn Diggs. Aryn said she feels a little weird about telling people how awesome she is. “Sometimes, when I tell people, I feel like they get too excited,” she told Murdock. Aryn endured surgery and several rounds of chemotherapy after she was diagnosed at just 2 years old. “We wrote this story together about a journey to find the true beauty that lives inside you,” said Aryn’s mom, Marissa Jacobs. “If you make a book about what you went through, people will support you and be inspired,” Aryn said. On Monday, she continue to do just that outside the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital in Washington Heights . Aryn and her family delivered “Socks With Stories”. Fifty pairs were donated to children fighting cancer. “They’re comfy and designed very well,” said Aryn. They were designed by real life superheroes – children battling cancer. “To know that the designs on the socks are created by children who are going through life battling illnesses is everything,” said Jacobs. The socks are delivered by childhood cancer survivors who volunteer to help. MORE FROM CBS NEW YORK: COVID In NYC: Business Owners On Edge With Another Possible Shutdown Looming, Say They Need Compensation To Stay Afloat NYPD Officer Assaulted By Multiple People While Jogging In Queens COVID In New York: Cuomo Says It’s Possible NYC Schools Could Reopen Even If Positivity Rate Stays Above 3% The company behind it all, Resilience Gives , says for each pair purchased, a pair is donated. Founder Jake Teitelbaum told CBS2 it’s a product of personal experience. He was diagnosed with cancer in college and says he spent too much time in the hospital. “It always stuck out that you get your gown and these really drab hospital socks,” Teitelbaum said. He said socks are a small thing, but they can change a patient’s experience. Plus, having them delivered by families celebrating years of being cancer free gives hope for the future. “I hope that someone looks at me and looks at my family and says, ‘We can do this too,’” said Jacobs. Aryn said, “Be confident. Don’t be scared.”
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RIVER EDGE, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Store owners at a busy shopping plaza in New Jersey are still waiting to get back to normal more than two weeks after the facade on their building collapsed, shuttering several businesses. 20 River Edge business owners say they saw their livelihoods come crashing down along with Kress Plaza’s facade on July 3rd. “I’ve been out of business for almost a month now,” JS Taekwondo owner Jisung Yun said. “It’s hurting us quite a bunch.” Michael and Sara Morea share Yun’s pain. They’ve been closed for weeks and call the experience “an emotional roller coaster.” They’re supposed to be celebrating one year in business, but instead they say it feels like a funeral. “This is everything for us, our future is looking bleak,” Michael says. River Edge Jewelers is feeling the same pain at what’s normally one of their busiest seasons. “Extremely frustrating,” James Boujakli said. “Me and my brother built this business in town and now it’s just slowly starting to deteriorate away.” Nine store owners want to know when they can get back to business, but say they’ve gotten no answers from Kress Associates, the owner of their section of the strip. CBS2 reached out to the company multiple times, but didn’t get a response. Additional calls and emails to town officials also went unanswered. The other half of the mall is owned by Barry Wong, so far he’s gotten four of his businesses back up and running. He’s hopeful he will restore power and gas to the others by the end of the week. Officials say inspectors were last at the building was in 2015, when the facade was installed. The Lions Club in River Edge is accepting donations for the shop owners to offer some relief while they’re out of business.
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Small Business Owners Say Thumbs Down For DOT’s ‘Clear Curb’ Pilot Program
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A city pilot program to make life easier for New Yorkers has instead had some people suffering instead. The owners of several small businesses say they’re struggling to make ends’ meet because the city wants to clear the curb. Some have called it a crisis. “Since they came into effect we lost a quarter of business,” said Harry Kucevic, owner of Prospect Heights Pizzeria. “This is the worst period for us.” Others say it’s affected business by as much as 50 percent. Many mom and pop shops have been open for years but fear they won’t last after the Department of Transportation cut off parking and deliveries during rush hour in three busy areas across the city. The “Clear Curbs” pilot program, meant to relieve traffic, implemented no standing rules from 7 to 10 am and 4 to 7 pm in Brooklyn on part of Flatbush Avenue, along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, and a zone between 45th and 50th Streets in Midtown Manhattan. The program is scheduled to end in September, but in the meantime business owners and people in the area wonder how much the program has actually helped ease congestion. CBS2 asked DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg about it. “We’ve looked at taxi speed and bus speed data and we can clearly see we’ve reduced congestion in those corridors,” said Trottenberg. The DOT wouldn’t provide data on Trottenberg’s claims, and city leaders have not said if they’ll continue the program after the pilot period ends.
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