NEW YORK (AP) – A photo of health care professionals from Georgia on a Southwest plane on their way to help with the coronavirus outbreak in New York is getting lots of love online. The photo shows dozens of people, some wearing masks and gloves, holding their hands in the shape of a heart. It […]

NEW YORK (JTA) – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants people to know that live worship services this weekend will be shut down by city officials. “If you go to your synagogue, if you go to your church, and attempt to hold services after having been told so often not to, our enforcement […]

ALBANY NY (AP) – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo extended school closures across the state by two weeks to April 15 as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise, he said Friday. “When you look at the number of cases that’s still increasing, it only makes sense to keep the schools closed,” he said […]

NEW YORK (JTA) – An Israeli American who advised Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign is challenging Jerry Nadler in the Democratic primary for the veteran lawmaker’s congressional seat in New York. Jonathan Herzog would be the youngest congressman at 25 and the first Israeli-American congressman, according to a campaign release sent to reporters on Friday announcing […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City subway driver was killed and several other people were injured early Friday in a fire on a train that is being investigated as a crime, officials said. Fires were reported at three other stations nearby at the same time, police said. “We are investigating it as a […]

NEW YORK (AP) — In New York City, they’ve started dismantling basketball hoops to prevent people from gathering in parks and playing. In Lakewood, New Jersey, police broke up a wedding being held in violation of a ban on large gatherings. And in Austin, Texas, officers are encouraging people to call a hotline to snitch […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) – The New York City Police Department is deeply saddened to announce that we have suffered our first Coronavirus pandemic casualty. A custodian assigned to Police Headquarters and a 14-year veteran of the NYPD family, Dennis C. Dickson, died earlier today at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn. Mr. Dickson was a revered […]

NEW YORK (AP) — One nurse died from coronavirus at a New York City hospital where staffers were so frustrated with dwindling supplies that they posed in scrub gowns made from garbage bags. An emergency room doctor believed he may have had the virus for days before he finally became too ill to come in. […]

ROCKLAND COUNTY (VINnews) — Rockland County legislator Aaron Wieder released a video on Thursday, in which he calls out the Rockland County Health Department for issuing a violation against the Central UTA school for being open, when the school is in fact closed. If this was not already enough, says Wieder, Rockland County Executive Ed […]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he will travel to Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday to see off a 1,000-bed Navy hospital ship that will relieve the pressure on New York hospitals dealing with coronavirus patients. Trump says he told New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo the ship will arrive in New York Harbor on Monday. Trump […]