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‘It’s Not Over’: New Yorkers React to New CDC Guidance on Masking Up Indoors

‘It’s Not Over’: New Yorkers React to New CDC Guidance on Masking Up Indoors

Although she's fully vaccinated, Leah Thode says her mask is not coming off.
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NYC Will Require Vaccination Or Weekly Testing For All City Workers

NYC Will Require Vaccination Or Weekly Testing For All City Workers

Beginning in mid-September, New York City will require all of its roughly 300,000 municipal workers, including police, firefighters and teachers, to either be vaccinated against COVID-19 or tested weekly.
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Emotional East Flatbush COVID Memorial Serves as Call for Change

Emotional East Flatbush COVID Memorial Serves as Call for Change

East Flatbush residents and elected officials gathered Saturday for a memorial to those lost to COVID-19, which also served as a call for community members to get vaccinated and for the city to implement changes to prevent Black and brown neighborhoo
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Cuomo Overhauls COVID Rent Relief Program in Wake of Criticism and Fears of Flood of Evictions

Cuomo Overhauls COVID Rent Relief Program in Wake of Criticism and Fears of Flood of Evictions

Gov. Cuomo is overhauling the state's problem-plagued COVID rental assistance program, a day after the Daily News highlighted issues facing financially-strapped renters and landlords alike.
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At a Brooklyn Homeless Shelter, Staff and Residents Ready for a Return

At a Brooklyn Homeless Shelter, Staff and Residents Ready for a Return

Inside an empty women's shelter on Brooklyn's Prospect Place, a few objects hint at the chaotic, terrifying early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. A 2020 calendar lay on a mattress in one of the shelter's six-person bedrooms.
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Crunching the COVID-19 Numbers: Outbreaks in Staten Island, Southern Brooklyn

Crunching the COVID-19 Numbers: Outbreaks in Staten Island, Southern Brooklyn

COVID-19 infection rates continue to rise across the Five Boroughs, particularly in low vaccination rate hotspots like Staten Island and southern Brooklyn, according to the latest city Health Department data . The citywide positivity rate rose to 2.
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NYC Approves Revel’s Fleet of Tesla Taxis, Bringing New Competition to Apps

NYC Approves Revel’s Fleet of Tesla Taxis, Bringing New Competition to Apps

Moped rental company Revel has the green light to launch an app-based car service in New York for its blue-hued fleet — despite a city policy that tried to nip it in the bud. Revel executives said they plan to launch the service Aug.
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Where the Cuomo Probes Stand — De Blasio Urges Employers to Mandate Vaccines — Rent Aid Fund Offers Little Relief

Where the Cuomo Probes Stand — De Blasio Urges Employers to Mandate Vaccines — Rent Aid Fund Offers Little Relief

The Department of Justice has opted not to open a civil rights investigation into New York's government-run nursing homes and whether they violated residents' rights with their handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. It gives Gov.
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VIDEO: Brooklyn Mugger on Citi Bike Stomps Victim Unconscious, Breaking His Nose — Then Pick-Pockets Him and Snatches Chain

VIDEO: Brooklyn Mugger on Citi Bike Stomps Victim Unconscious, Breaking His Nose — Then Pick-Pockets Him and Snatches Chain

A bold Brooklyn mugger on a Citi Bike stomped a man unconscious, leaving the victim with a broken nose, before pick-pocketing him and snatching his chain, disturbing video released Sunday shows. The 68-year-old victim was walking along Pitkin Ave.
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Brooklyn’s Little Haiti Community Worried About Turmoil in Homeland

Brooklyn’s Little Haiti Community Worried About Turmoil in Homeland

Residents and representatives of Brooklyn's large and worried Haitian population are asking President Biden to ensure the protection of refugees and relatives in their homeland still reeling from the recent assassination of the embattled nation's pre
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