The federal government’s count of the COVID-19 death toll in New York has 11,000 more victims than the tally publicized by the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which has stuck with a far more conservative approach to counting virus deaths. The discrepancy in death counts continued to widen this year, according to an Associated Press review, even as the Democrat has come under fire over allegations that his office purposely obscured the number of deaths of nursing home residents to protect his reputation. New York state’s official death count, presented daily to the public and on the state’s Department of Health website, stood at around 43,000 this week.

Police are searching for a woman they said slammed her vehicle into a Bronx hotel that was being used as a homeless shelter Monday night. The incident occurred at around 11 p.m. at the Ramada by Wyndham Bronx hotel located at East 151 Street and Gerard Avenue, authorities said. Apparently, this was the end of an ongoing dispute between the resident and the homeless shelter, where at points police had previously been called. It boiled over when the woman left and then returned, crashing her car through the front of the hotel that is currently serving as a homeless shelter. She fled on foot and police continue to search for her. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Jacob Steinmetz’s blazing fastball helped make him a baseball draft trailblazer. The New York native is believed to be the first known practicing Orthodox Jewish player to be selected by a major league team, going in the third round — 77th overall — to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday. The 6-foot-5, 220-pound Steinmetz, from the Long Island hamlet of Woodmere, is a 17-year-old right-hander whose repertoire features a fastball that sits in the mid- to upper-90s and a knee-buckling curveball. His draft stock rose considerably while playing for the Elev8 Baseball Academy in Delray Beach, Florida, this year after previously competing for his high school team, The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway.

A 13-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy were among then 19 victims injured or killed in a series of shootings across New York City over the weekend, police said. Police reported 16 shooting incidents between midnight Friday though midnight Monday. Among the shootings, nine of them were reported on Sunday, alone. There have been at least 803 shooting incidents so far this year in New York City with more than 930 victims compared to 623 shootings at the same time last year with 762 victims, according to the NYPD. (AP)

Torrential downpours, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes are possible for the tri-state area Monday. The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center upgraded the New York metro area’s severe weather risk Monday to a two of five, meaning a slight risk of severe storms. Any that develop could bring near 60 mph wind gusts and rapid rainfall rates up to 2 inches an hour in spots. Tornadoes are also possible. The same spots that got most saturated last week are at highest risk for flash flooding with Monday’s storm system, meaning everywhere from coastal New Jersey to New York City, which saw wild subway flooding, and parts of Connecticut. The latest round of storms is expected to develop after 2 p.m.

President Joe Biden will host New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate and other city and law enforcement leaders from around the country to talk about reducing crime. Eric Adams, Brooklyn borough president and the likely next mayor of New York, plus Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and San Jose, California, Mayor Sam Liccardo are among those expected to attend the meeting Monday, according to the White House. Biden will also host Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis, Chief David Brown of Chicago, Lt. Anthony Lima of the Newark, New Jersey, police, and Chief Robert Tracy of the Wilmington, Delaware, Police Department.

A 13-year-old was fatally shot Sunday as he stood outside a restaurant in the Bronx, police said. Chief of Department Rodney Harrison said on Twitter that the shooting was gang related and asked the public for help in finding the suspect. The unidentified victim was standing outside at about 3:15 p.m. when a someone got out of a black vehicle and shot him in the chest and a leg, according to New York City police. He was pronounced dead a nearby hospital. (AP)
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YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Reb Moshe Bistricer Z”L. He was 101. The Niftar was a Holocaust survivor, who escaped the Nazis YM”S by hiding in Budapest. He married his wife Gittel and later immigrated to the United States, settling in New York. R’ Moshe built an extremely successful and famous real estate company. He was a very big Baal Tzedakah, and was very close to the Satmar Rebbe (Divrei Yoel) ZATZAL, and continued his close relationship with Satmar until today. Despite his old age, the Niftar would have an aid push him to a Shul near his home in Flatbush every Shabbos, never missing a Minyan. He wife Gittel A”H was Niftar a few years ago, and is survived by his sons R’ Yaakov and R’ Avrohom. His daughter Mrs.

A New York police officer who was hit in the neck by a BB-gun pellet on a Brooklyn street Saturday was recovering from a minor injury after treatment at a hospital. Police say the officer was struck late Saturday afternoon as he responded to a report that a civilian was struck by a BB in the borough’s Brownsville section. Police said they did not know whether other individuals were struck, but the Daily News reported that several others were struck and a car’s window was shattered by the pellets. Police said nobody had been apprehended by late Saturday, but an investigation was continuing. (AP)

The New York City Department of Corrections said late Saturday that a prisoner who escaped custody in the Bronx earlier in the day had been captured. The 30-year-old man had escaped from a floating jail off the Bronx that is part of the Vernon C. Bain Correction Center, authorities said. DOC Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi issued a statement late Saturday to say the escape remains under investigation. He said the DOC will be thoroughly addressing “any and all” deficiencies that led to the escape. He said those involved in the search for the prisoner included the DOC Correction Intelligence Bureau, the U.S. Marshals Service, the NYPD, and other law enforcement partners. (AP)