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FILE PHOTO: Adolescents receive COVID-19 vaccine

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Almost all Asian New York City teen residents have gotten at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, data shows

Posted on October 7, 2021

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Lower Manhattan

New York City Council passes Safety in Our Shelters Act, protecting those guarding homeless centers

Posted on October 7, 2021

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Bronx Times

Consequences for unvaccinated CUNY students include academic withdrawal, loss of tuition

People take part in a protest to get rent relief or rent freeze in New York

New relief program offers New York landlords $125 million to recoup back rents

Posted on October 7, 2021

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Season of death: 2021 was most fatal summer on New York City streets under Mayor de Blasio, according to report

Posted on October 6, 2021

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No Sleep Till Brooklyn: Protesters sleep outside of Senator Schumer’s home demanding pathway to citizenship

Posted on October 6, 2021

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Metro Philadelphia

‘Fauci’ documentary shows the man behind the mask

FILE PHOTO: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination campaign for homeless people in Rio de Janeiro’s downtown

COVID-19 infections dropping throughout the Americas, more vaccine needed, says health agency

Posted on October 6, 2021

Police probe for clues in a fatal shooting at Monroe Street and Classon Avenue.

NYPD touts drop in murders, shootings in September – but rates remains far higher than before COVID-19 pandemic

Posted on October 6, 2021

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Lower Manhattan pols hope to set boundaries with Open Restaurants program

Posted on October 6, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a protective face mask waits at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mobile testing site amid the pandemic in the Midtown Manhattan area of New York City

Rapid COVID-19 tests increasingly scarce, pricey as demand from employers jumps

Posted on October 6, 2021

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Posted on October 5, 2021

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Long Island Press

Northwell Health cuts 2% of its workforce that refused to comply with COVID-19 mandate

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New Yorkers protest abortion restrictions in Texas

Posted on October 4, 2021

The first members of the Hassebroek family are vaccinated in New York

NYC gave out $25 million on $100 ‘cash for vax’ bonus

Posted on October 4, 2021

J&J to seek U.S. FDA authorization of booster shot this week – NYT

Posted on October 4, 2021

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U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to New York tax on opioid companies

Posted on October 4, 2021

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Posted on October 4, 2021

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Broadway Review | ‘Six’ finally gets its royal opening night, at long last

Posted on October 3, 2021

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Sermon in the street: Middle Church hosts first in-person service since fire ravaged East Village church

Posted on October 3, 2021

A man wearing a protective face mask walks, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, through the Times Square area in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City

Crunching the COVID-19 Numbers: Virus thriving in low-vaxxed areas across NYC – especially in Brooklyn

Posted on October 3, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza tour New Bridges Elementary School ahead of schools reopening

Supreme Court’s Sotomayor allows New York school vaccine mandate

Posted on October 2, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A handout photo of an experimental COVID-19 treatment pill, called molnupiravir and being developed by Merck & Co Inc and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP

Merck COVID-19 pill success slams Moderna shares, shakes up healthcare sector

Posted on October 1, 2021

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Transit union unveils memorial for workers who died of COVID-19

Posted on September 30, 2021

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Brooklyn Paper

Tribulations befall Brooklyn businesses as vaccine mandate settles in

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Health

City develops new public health corps for post-COVID wellness initiatives

Posted on September 29, 2021

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DOE staffers who miss COVID-19 vaccine deadline will be put on unpaid leave

Posted on September 29, 2021

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Midtown Manhattan

‘Resignation isn’t accountability’: Kim, Williams press Hochul to seek ‘justice’ for COVID-19 nursing home victims

Posted on September 29, 2021

FILE PHOTO: SOMOS Community Care administers Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine at pop-up site in New York

DOE administers thousands more shots ahead of vaccine mandate deadline

Posted on September 29, 2021

Hochul names NYC’s former top doc Mary Bassett as state health commissioner

Posted on September 29, 2021

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YouTube blocks all anti-vaccine content

Posted on September 29, 2021

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It’s alive! East Village’s Halloween Adventure has reopened

Posted on September 28, 2021

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Lower East Side

‘Unacceptable’: Hearing-impaired and disabled tenants rail against deplorable conditions in Lower East Side residence

Posted on September 28, 2021

Classes are held with masks being required to be worn at the Sokolowski School in Chelsea

Health

Defying Delta: Back to school goes better than feared

Posted on September 28, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul in Albany, New York

Hochul signs executive order for National Guard to fill hospital shortages due to vaccine hesitancy

Posted on September 27, 2021

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NYC public schools implementing vax/test policy after judge temporarily halts full vaccine mandate

Posted on September 27, 2021

Pfizer begins study of oral drug for prevention of COVID-19

Posted on September 27, 2021

FILE PHOTO: SOMOS Community Care administers Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine at pop-up site in New York

U.S. closing in on nearly 400 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered

Posted on September 27, 2021

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New York may tap National Guard to replace unvaccinated healthcare workers

Posted on September 26, 2021

People participate in a Global Climate Strike in New York

Crunching the COVID-19 Numbers: Positivity rates fall in most spots as low-vaxxed NYC areas see more cases

Posted on September 26, 2021

FILE PHOTO: First day of New York City schools

Court blocks New York City schools vaccine mandate, sets hearing for next week

Posted on September 26, 2021

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Bronx

After NYC jail officials ignored suicide prevention plan, five detainees took their own lives

Posted on September 25, 2021

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Posted on September 24, 2021

Vice President Harris leads a session of the President’s online COVID Summit at the White House

‘The View’ hosts test positive for COVID, scuttling VP Harris’s first in-studio interview

Posted on September 24, 2021

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Manhattan, Staten Island to undergo mosquito spraying to fight West Nile virus

Posted on September 23, 2021

New York State Department of Health Commissioner Howard Zucker speaks during a news conference at the opening of the the New York State coronavirus disease vaccination site at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, in New York

State Health Commissioner Zucker resigns from post, Hochul announces

Posted on September 23, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Passengers queue at LAX airport before Memorial Day weekend in Los Angeles

Explainer – Here’s what we know about how U.S. will lift travel restrictions

Posted on September 22, 2021

J&J says second shot boosts protection for moderate-severe COVID-19 to 94%

Posted on September 21, 2021

More from around NYC

Elected officials, developers, agency leaders and housing advocates held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the grand opening of "YP Senior Residence" in Morris Park.

117-Unit affordable senior housing opens in Morris Heights

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Selfhelp hosts Holocaust Survivor Day event in Forest Hills with music, dancing and reflection

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Stolen church van disrupts outreach services in East Flatbush

From right to left: Santino DeAngelo, Erik Bottcher, Francis Jue, Carlina Rivera, Caissie Levy, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Tom Kirdahy, Brandon Uranowitz, Stephen Flaherty, Donna Murphy, Jonathan Groff, and Lynn Ahrens.

Stars and neighbors come out for Terrence McNally Way