Brooklyn BP Eric Adams to Bowl at The Gutter After Ebola Scare

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Assemblyman Joseph Lentol declared this afternoon theywill play a frame at trendy Williamsburg lanes and music venue The Guttertomorrowjust three days after Dr. Craig Spencer, now diagnosed with the Ebola virus, bowled there.

Mr. Adams and Mr. Lentol visitedThe Gutter, and praised the venue and its owner Todd Powers for theircultural and recreational offerings before promising to play there on Saturday. City officials have beenscramblingto easepublic fears ever since Mr. Spencer was quarantined with the illnesswhich has killed thousands in Africa and one patient in Texasat Bellevue Hospital last night.

Not only provides great bowling, but you can also get a great group, as well as a great band. So it is really the triple-b in the great borough of Brooklyn that we are coming out to support, Mr. Adams said.We wanted to come here today not only as an avid bowler, but as the borough president of the Borough of Brooklyn where 2.6 million people live, and we want to send a clear message that we would be bowling right now if the place was open, but we will definitely be here when the venue re-opens.

Mr. Adams noted the location has been declared free of the virus, and that Mr. Powers has taken it upon himself to pay for an extensive cleaning since yesterdays announcement. Mr. Lentolwho entered the facility with the borough presidentsaid that the alley would be pristine bythe time it re-opens this evening.

We came here, the borough president and I, was to go inside and to allay peoples fears that theyre going to catch a virus by going inside this bowling alley, said Mr. Lentol.Todd runs one of the great establishments, one of the jewels of Williamsburg.

Both men praised Mayor Bill de Blasio, Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Centers for Disease Control for their swift response, and argued that New York would not see a reprise of the Dallas incident, where the late victim was able to infect a nurse before his death.

The medical industry is on top of it, Mr. Adams assured reporters.

Mr. Adams also noted his office would be offering free vaccinations against the influenza virus, whose initial effects resemble Ebolas, to avoid a widespread panic.

We dont want, every time theres symptoms theres a cold or a flu, for people to believe theres something out of the ordinary, said Mr. Adams.

Mr. Adams said it was unclear whetherMr. Spencer, a Harlem resident who had been fighting Ebola in Africa, was bowling or just listening to a band two evenings agobut pointed out there was virtually no chance of contracting the disease via casual contact, and that Mr. Spencer was not infectious at the time.

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Brooklyn BP Eric Adams to Bowl at The Gutter After Ebola Scare