If the outbreak roars back in New York City, Anil and Joyce Lilly will not be sheltering again in their Bronx apartment. They just bought a house an hour north in the Hudson Valley. “We need more elbow room,” said Joyce Lilly, explaining their move to Washingtonville, New York. “Because we were locked into the apartment for three months, a solid three months, I feel like I’m getting out of prison and I want to run as far away as possible.” New Yorkers anxious after weathering the worst of the coronavirus pandemic are fueling a boom in home sales and rentals around the picturesque towns and wooded hills to the north. Real estate brokers and agents describe a red-hot market recently, with many house hunters able to work from home.

Norman Rosenbaum, a Melbourne based lawyer who became well-known in the US for his battle for justice following his brother Yankel’s murder in the Crown Heights riots, passed away on Shabbos at the age of 63, Collive reported. Yankee Rosenbaum, a 29-year-old yeshivah student, was stabbed to death by 30 African-American men in 1991 in the Crown Heights riots, triggered by a car accident that killed one African-American child, Gavin Cato, and severely injured another. Lemrick Nelson Jr., 16, was charged with Rosenbaum’s murder but was acquitted at a trial the following year. Norman Rosenbaum began traveling to New York on a regular basis, staying months at a time, in a campaign for justice for his brother’s murder.

Get ready for the second heat wave of the season with near-record highs expected for the first half of the week. The National Weather Service issued a Heat Advisory for New York City and northeastern New Jersey from 12 p.m. Sunday through 8 p.m. Monday. Temperatures are expected to reach into the mid-90s through Tuesday, but the heat index could make it feel closer to 100 degrees in some spots. Feel-like temps in New Jersey may get as high as 105. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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The tallies for people hospitalized in New York with the coronavirus are continuing to drop to the lowest levels since the pandemic began, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. There were at least 646 people hospitalized in the state on Friday, a new low since March 18 and down slightly from the previous day, the Democratic governor said in a statement. The number of reported deaths in the state rose by one, to 10. Daily statewide statistics show New York with more than 750 newly confirmed cases, representing only about 1% of all tests performed. The true number of cases is likely higher because many people have not been tested, and studies suggest people can be infected and not feel sick.

New York lawmakers voted Thursday to strip away pieces of the broad legal shield they gave nursing homes, hospitals and other health care facilities to fend off lawsuits and criminal prosecutions over coronavirus care. The state Senate and Assembly voted Thursday to limit the wide-ranging protection, which the Democrat-led Legislature agreed to in early April when the virus was raging in New York. But now, with the virus surge tamed and the state reckoning with the nation’s highest death toll — more than 25,000 confirmed coronavirus fatalities statewide, including over 6,500 in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities — many lawmakers are having second thoughts. Once the legislation eventually hits the governor’s desk, he’ll have 10 days to act.

New York City has reached its goal of performing 50,000 coronavirus tests a day, and its contact tracing effort has potentially prevented thousands of new infections, officials said Thursday. Mayor Bill de Blasio said four new clinics operated by the urgent care company MedRite will bring the total citywide daily testing capacity to 50,000. “This is the number we’ve been wanting to get to for quite a while. We will now have that capacity,” he said. Dr. Ted Long, the head of the city’s contact tracing effort, said the median wait for test results citywide is now two days, down from more than double that a week ago, but he acknowledged that waits at some testing sites have been much longer.

A federal judge has halted the public release of police officer disciplinary records in New York, temporarily turning back a state transparency reform enacted in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. Judge Katherine Polk Failla granted a temporary restraining order late Wednesday barring police departments and other entities in the state from disclosing discipline records until at least Aug. 18, when she’ll hear arguments in a union lawsuit challenging their release. Failla took over the case when it was transferred from state court, extending and expanding an existing stay that paused public disclosure of records concerning unsubstantiated and non-finalized allegations or settlement agreements.

Five months after it kicked New Yorkers out of trusted traveler security programs in a spat over immigration policy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reversed itself Thursday and told a court it had misrepresented the facts in a lawsuit over the matter. The department announced that New Yorkers would once again be allowed to enroll and re-enroll in Global Entry and other federal travel programs that allow vetted travelers to avoid long security lines at airports and the U.S. border. President Donald Trump’s administration in February booted New Yorkers from the programs, saying it was taking the action because a newly enacted state law allowing unauthorized immigrants to get driver’s licenses had cut off some federal access to state motor vehicle records.

A New York City police officer and two other men were arrested on drug charges after an investigation that was sparked by a fatal overdose on Long Island. Joseph Recca, 28, was arrested Tuesday on charges of drug possession and sales, official misconduct and unauthorized use of a computer, Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini said. Recca resigned from the New York Police Department shortly after his arraignment Wednesday. “This is an NYPD officer who, along with two co-conspirators, was allegedly involved in operating a local drug distribution network in our community, which is very disturbing,” Sini said.

The New York State Senate and Assembly have passed a bill to end the suspension of driver’s licenses based on the failure to pay traffic ticket fines or fees. The legislation also creates a payment plan system for drivers. The bill must be signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo to become law. The new legislation creates a payment plan for drivers. If a person doesn’t pay for a ticket or fine due to traffic debt, the plan consists of 2% of a person’s monthly income or $10 a month, whichever option is greater. The reform also reinstates licenses to those who currently have a suspended license due to traffic debt.