NEW YORK (AP) — As calls grow nationwide for mandatory coronavirus testing in nursing homes, New York facilities are sounding alarms about the state’s ambitious new demand to test roughly 185,000 workers twice a week. Administrators worry there won’t be enough kits for an estimated 370,000 tests a week on workers at nursing homes and […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s mayor expressed concern Thursday over a heated phone call in March between his health commissioner and a top police commander over what was then a dangerously thin stockpile of face masks. During the call, which took place as health care workers were desperate to obtain more protective gear […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The $3 trillion aid package proposed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is exactly what New York, other states and cities need to revive their economies that have been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday. “Right now, if we don’t get a massive infusion […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A fourth region in upstate New York might start reopening for business. New York City launched an informational campaign about a rare syndrome afflicting children. And the city’s police commissioner rebutted complaints of racism in his department’s handling of social distancing violations. Among the developments Wednesday in New York on the […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The Queens couple that was arrested earlier this week for making anti-Semitic remarks and ripping the masks off Hasidic men in Williamsburg, were the victims of an attack at the scene. At least that’s the way their attorney tells it. According to police, Paulo Pinho, 35, and his wife, Clelia Pinho, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI brought weapons charges Wednesday following a New York City sting operation against two men, one of whom espoused racist and anti-Semitic views on social media and had been acquiring tactical military gear, authorities said. Joseph Miner, 29, and Daniel Jou, 40, were charged with buying firearms with obliterated serial […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Leventhal felt a sneeze coming and panicked. The Brooklynite left his cloth face mask at home for a morning run in a park last week. Walking home, he turned toward an empty street and let the sneeze out, hoping no one would notice. Too bad for him, there’s no hiding […]

NEW YORK (AP) – A total of 52 children in New York City have been diagnosed with an inflammatory syndrome possibly linked to COVID-19 and another 10 cases are pending, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday. Of those 62 confirmed or possible cases, 25 have tested positive for the coronavirus and another 22 had antibodies […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Several regions of upstate New York that have shown progress in taming the coronavirus outbreak are ready to gradually restart economic activity by the end of the week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday. Cuomo shut down the entire state March 22 as the New York City area emerged as a global […]

NEW ROCHELLE, NY (JTA) – The attorney at the center of the coronavirus outbreak in the New York City area, said he he has no idea how he contracted the deadly virus. Lawrence Garbuz of suburban New Rochelle, told Savannah Guthrie in an interview aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show that he went to his […]