New York is seeing an uptick in COVID-19 cases as vaccination rates slowly rise, according to the state’s latest data released Saturday. About 525 people each day tested positive for COVID-19 in New York for the seven days through Friday. That’s up from 369 people — a 42% increase — for the prior week. It’s unclear why more people in New York are testing positive, at a time when fewer people are getting tested. The state Department of Health says a higher percentage of cases are linked to more contagious variants. It is urging more people to get vaccinated. New York City is driving much of the increase in positives, though cases are also rising in parts of Long Island.

Some New York City roadways and at least one subway station temporarily became bodies of water on Thursday, after a deluge of rainfall flooded traffic lanes and station platforms. Video posted to social media in the late afternoon appeared to show water levels reaching waist height at the subway station at West 157th Street in upper Manhattan. In one video, an intrepid woman climbed down the stairs of a station and waded through the dark, murky water with a bag on her shoulder and another held above her head. In another video, a group attempted to cross the water by hopping through it in garbage bags. The water issues weren’t just below ground, either. This is the Major Deegan Expressway in NYC after a vicious downpour a short while ago.

Police responding to a triple shooting in Brooklyn on Thursday night shot and killed a suspected gunman, police said. The police-involved shooting happened in Bushwick after 10:30 p.m., according to police. Officers responding to gunshots near Halsey Street and Wilson Avenue found three people shot in front of 1195 Halsey St., Chief of Patrol Juanita Holmes said at a news conference. The officers pursued an armed man who had fled the scene on foot and confronted him on Wilson Avenue, according to police. The man did not comply and instead raised the firearm in the direction of the officers, according to police. The officers discharged their weapons, striking the man, police said. He was taken to Wyckoff Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He has not been identified.

After a grueling two weeks, the body of R’ Chaim (Harry) Rosenberg Z”L of Flatbush was found and identified in the rubble of the Surfside condo collapse. He was 52. Chaim purchased the second-floor condo only last month, hoping that its views of the Atlantic Ocean would help him find solace after a turbulent year that saw the loss of his wife, Anna Rosenberg A”H, to cancer, and both of his parents to COVID-19. Chaim was a longtime Mispallel at Rabbi Weinfeld’s Shul in Flatbush. In recent months Chaim had dedicated himself towards launching Mercaz Shalom, a young adult center for mental healing, located on the campus of Mayanei Hayeshua Hospital in Bnei Brak, Israel, in memory of his late wife.

Severe weather advisories have been issued across the Tri-State on Thursday as Tropical Storm Elsa moves towards the Northeast, bringing drenching rain and strong wind gusts. A Tropical Storm Warning is already in effect for much of Long Island, the Jersey Shore and parts of southern Connecticut. A Flash Flood Watch will be in effect for much of the Tri-State – including all of New York City and much of northern New Jersey and the Lower Hudson Valley – from midnight Thursday night until 12 p.m. Friday. Periods of rain, heavy at times, arrive late Thursday night into Friday morning as Elsa moves through the New York area. The downpours should last six to eight hours and could drop up to 2 inches of rain, maybe 3 inches in spots.

This is an open letter to the NYPD Officer verbally abused on Thursday morning by Heshy Tischler on Ocean Parkway and Avenue M. I want you to know that the man who just verbally abused you, does not represent anyone in the Jewish community. If you don’t think this is true, just know that he recently ran for city council, and garnished a whopping total of 200 votes, mainly of misfits and nutcases like himself. We apologize that you were subject to being told “like when you committed a crime, like when you beat up George Floyd”, when you are just doing your job, and clearly never touched George Floyd. I have confirmed that you (the officer) was placed at this intersection due to multiple car crashes in that immediate area with serious injuries in the past few weeks.

The triumph of a moderate Democrat in the mayoral primary in deep blue New York City appears to accelerate a recent trend of some of the party’s most fervent voters breaking away from its most progressive candidates. Eric Adams, a former New York Police Department captain, this week became his party’s nominee to lead the nation’s largest city after making a centerpiece of his campaign his rejection of left-leaning activists’ calls to defund the police. His win comes on the heels of victories by self-styled pragmatic candidates in relatively low-turnout elections — which tend to draw the most loyal base voters — in races for a U.S. House seat in New Mexico, a congressional primary in Louisiana and a gubernatorial primary in Virginia.

Eric Adams, the winner of the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, vowed Wednesday to guide the city to a new era of safety and prosperity. “New York is going to show America how to run cities,” Adams said on “CBS This Morning.” “Because I know how to run this city. I know how to lead.” Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, bested a large Democratic field in New York’s first major race to use ranked choice voting. Results from the latest tabulations showed him leading former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by 8,426 votes, or a little more than 1 percentage point. The Associated Press called the race for Adams based on mail-in ballot results in the June 22 primary that were added to the vote count Tuesday.

Essential workers who helped New York City through the COVID-19 pandemic were honored Wednesday with a parade up Broadway — nurses, doctors, first responders, teachers, bus drivers and more riding on floats through a canyon of tall buildings and falling confetti. The parade stretched from Battery Park to City Hall, led up Broadway in lower Manhattan by grand marshal Sandra Lindsay, a health care worker who was the first person in the country to get a COVID-19 vaccine shot. “What a difference a year makes,” said Lindsay.

The Associated Press declared Eric Adams the winner of the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City Tuesday after nearly all absentee ballots were counted, leaving no path for his closest competitors to catch him. The Brooklyn Borough president led Kathryn Garcia by a little more than 8,400 votes, or about 1 percentage point, after election officials finished tallying the results under the city’s ranked choice voting system. Election officials were still scrutinizing a few thousand absentee ballots to determine if they are valid. But there weren’t enough to alter the outcome. Under the system, voters ranked up to five candidates for mayor in order of preference.