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Flooding brings new woes to NYC church hard-hit by COVID-19

by David Crary
| January 5, 2021 3:42 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — A Lutheran church in New York City already reeling from the COVID-19 deaths of more than 60 members of the congregation has suffered a new trauma: Severe flood damage from the rupture of a major municipal water main.

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