Highland Mills, NY (VINnews) – A house fire in the Town of Woodbury this morning claimed the life of a retired professor, who has been accused for years of being an anti-Semite. Clyde Magarelli, who had taught sociology for decades at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J., lived alone and was the only person in […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City won’t allow public events in June, including three of the city’s major annual celebrations: the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, the Celebrate Israel parade and the Pride parade on its 50th anniversary. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that the events would be canceled or at least postponed, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — As residents at a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, began dying in late February from a coronavirus outbreak that would eventually take 43 lives, there was little sign of trouble at the Cobble Hill Health Center, a 360-bed facility in an upscale section of Brooklyn. Its Facebook page posted a cheerful […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus death toll in New York dropped again, a sign that Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday means the state is “on the other side of the plateau” and that ongoing social distancing practices are working to stem the spread of the virus. Cuomo said 507 people died on Saturday, down […]

CHESTNUT RIDGE (VINnews) — Chestnut Ridge resident Chaim Rose has been appointed to the Board of Trustees, making him the first Hasidic Jewish resident to serve on the governing body since 1986 when the village was formed. Rose’s appointment by Mayor Rosario Presti is a symbol of the growing Orthodox Jewish influence in the Ramapo […]

NEW YORK (AP) – The daily increase in coronavirus deaths in New York state has dropped under 550 for the first time in over two weeks as hospitalizations continue to decline, Cuomo said Saturday. But the crisis is far from over: Hospitals are still reporting nearly 2,000 new COVID-19 patients per day, and nursing homes […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The despair wrought on nursing homes by the coronavirus was laid bare Friday in a state survey identifying numerous New York facilities where multiple patients died over the past few weeks. Nineteen of the state’s nursing homes reported 20 or more deaths linked to the pandemic, the survey said. One Brooklyn […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Elizabeth Bonilla pulled her ambulance up to a set of Bronx row houses. Another ambulance and a fire truck were already there, their flashing lights painting the dark streets an eerie shade of orange. Neighbors gathered on their stoops to watch. Some were sipping wine. “We gotta gown up,” she said […]

NEW YORK (AP) – New York state will extend its stay-at-home restrictions at least through May 15 amid signs the initial wave of the coronavirus outbreak has stopped getting worse. Cuomo said Thursday that virus transmission rates still need to be tamed as he prolonged rules that have left many New Yorkers working from home, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Two police officers assigned to patrol New York City’s desolate streets were put under department investigation Thursday after a video showed them purportedly making profane comments to a man over their police vehicle’s loudspeaker. Video posted on social media showed officers in a police department SUV on Wednesday night telling the […]