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COVID-19 pandemic in New York

Omicron sub-variant accounts for ‘around 30 percent’ of NYC COVID cases

Posted on March 18, 2022

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Public Advocate lays out ways to re-imagine NYC’s public school system in new report

Posted on March 18, 2022

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Brooklyn

Pratt students create oral history project to recognize first Black settlement

Posted on March 18, 2022

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QNS

Five-alarm fire leads to ‘severe damage’ to building on Flushing’s Main Street

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Midtown Manhattan

SEE IT: St. Patrick’s Day parade is back in NYC

Posted on March 17, 2022

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Ukraine Invasion

Port Authority waives fees on humanitarian goods for Ukraine

Posted on March 17, 2022

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Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn man pleads guilty to 2020 armed attack against three NYPD officers

FILE PHOTO: A “For Sale” sign is posted outside a residential home in Seattle

News

U.S. economy flexes muscle with jobless benefit rolls at 52-year low; factories humming

Posted on March 17, 2022

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QNS

Two Queens lawmakers champion initiative to combat gender-based violence in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities

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Bronx Times

Mayor’s Fund releases $3M, relocation housing available for tenants impacted by deadly Bronx fire

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Queens

Crooks posed as Con Edison workers in armed Queens home invasion: cops

Posted on March 17, 2022

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Chinatown

Police seek man who vandalized shrine to murdered Chinatown resident Christina Yuna Lee

Posted on March 16, 2022

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QNS

Flushing woman arraigned on murder charge in fatal stabbing of immigration attorney: DA

Politics

NYC families, educators and students rally for more public charter seats

Posted on March 16, 2022

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‘I want to throw in the towel:’ NYC eateries continue to struggle two years into the pandemic

Posted on March 16, 2022

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QNS

Broad Channel man pleads guilty in multimillion-dollar prize notice fraud scheme

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QNS

Two-alarm fire at Maspeth jewelry store injures three: FDNY

Bronx

KIPP charter college prep school students aim for college, and see results

Posted on March 16, 2022

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Politics

‘Let’s close the loophole once and for all’: Hochul signs anti-sexual harassment laws

Posted on March 16, 2022

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QNS

Police searching for pair connected with stabbing near John Adams High School in Ozone Park

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Charter school leaders reflect on two years of COVID

Posted on March 16, 2022

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News

‘Year of 5G’ falls flat as DOT stalls node approvals

Posted on March 16, 2022

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Nation

Trains, tips and teamwork: How police in New York and Washington caught suspected serial shooter of homeless men

Posted on March 15, 2022

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Brooklyn Paper

AG releases body-cam footage from fatal police shooting of Eudes Pierre in Brooklyn

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Brooklyn

Legal Aid Society sues its own Brooklyn landlord for moldy office

Posted on March 15, 2022

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Bronx Times

A COVID task force cancelled a fire inspection at Twins Park North West a year prior to fire, union president reveals

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Brooklyn Paper

‘Brooklyn is Africa’ exhibit displayed at Brooklyn Borough Hall through March 21

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QNS

Two teens stabbed near John Adams High School in Ozone Park

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Business

Councilmember Julie Menin calls for more funding for NYC’s small business agency

Posted on March 15, 2022

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Celebrate the coming of spring at Hudson River Pier 46

Posted on March 15, 2022

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Nation

Serial shooter wanted for killing homeless man in Manhattan cuffed in Washington

Posted on March 15, 2022

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Courts

Midtown Community Court launches specialized court focused on offenders with serious mental illnesses

Posted on March 15, 2022

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Lower Manhattan

Police release new photos of Manhattan/‌DC homeless shooter suspect; up reward to $70,000

Posted on March 14, 2022

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Brooklyn Paper

‘I did nothing wrong!’: 83-year-old convicted killer Harvey Marcelin charged, again, with murder

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NYS Education Department offers new draft regulations for nonpublic school education

Posted on March 14, 2022

Street vendors rally for greater NYC protection

Street vendors stage ‘sleepout’ at Hochul’s Midtown office to lift cap on licenses

Posted on March 14, 2022

Crime-Scene

QNS

Source: Lawyer-client dispute could have led to fatal Flushing stabbing

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Op-Ed

Op-Ed | New York should bring back a tuition free CUNY

Posted on March 14, 2022

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Brooklyn Paper

Locals rally as feds propose closing the Brooklyn VA

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Brooklyn Paper

Firefighters battle five-alarm blaze at Brooklyn fitness center

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COVID-19, Two Years Later | Small businesses across NYC getting back on their feet, though recovery remains slow

Posted on March 14, 2022

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The Brooklyn Game

Kevin Durant reminds NBA yet again of how dominant he can be for Nets

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Caribbean Life

US Senate confirms Nick Perry as its next ambassador to Jamaica

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Soho

New Yorkers mourn homeless man possibly murdered by serial killer in Lower Manhattan

Posted on March 14, 2022

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Lower Manhattan

EXCLUSIVE | Homeless New Yorkers express shock, fright to amNY after gunman shoots two unhoused men on Lower Manhattan streets

Posted on March 13, 2022

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Midtown Manhattan

Members of NYPD honored at Madison Square Garden

Posted on March 13, 2022

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Ukraine Invasion

‘They can buy obscurity here’: Manhattan pols push sanctions, transparency against Russian oligarchs in NYC

Posted on March 13, 2022

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Lower Manhattan

‘We need to find this person’: Cops desperate to stop murderer targeting homeless people in Manhattan

Posted on March 13, 2022

More from around NYC

People standing in a circle and taking an oath of office to join PSA 8 Tenant Council

New members of PSA 8 tenant council sworn in at Edenwald Houses

A medley of ice cream, served in vintage silver medal dishes, at Eddie's Sweet Shop in Forest Hills.

Celebrate National Ice Cream Day at Eddie’s Sweet Shop in Forest Hills

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Heap’s Ice Cream in Park Slope makes magic with neighborhood collabs

Congressmember Mike Lawler of New York speaks in Washington on July 17 during a press conference to support the LGBTQ hotline.

‘Unfathomable’: Trump administration ends LGBTQ youth suicide hotline