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Knicks City Dancer Among Nurses Fighting On Front Lines Of Coronavirus Battle

SOMERVILLE, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — The heroes of the coronavirus pandemic are those front line workers who put their lives on the line every day to help their patients.

You’ll even find heroes from the sports world if you look beyond the mask.

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Tara Rapelyea’s most vital uniform isn’t her most glamorous.

“It’s different. I don’t have that dancing outlet, which, you know, allows you to release a lot of your emotions,” she told CBS2’s Steve Overmyer.

Emotions aren’t in short supply for this Knicks City Dancer, who for the past two years has been a nurse at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset in New Jersey.