New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and crowds of New Yorkers welcomed the U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort on Monday morning as it docked off Manhattan to support the city’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreSchools in New York state will remain closed for another two weeks, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Friday, continuing to waive the mandate that schools must operate for 180 days a year, as Covid-19 cases in the state continue to climb.
Read moreSharing a sliver of good news Wednesday from ground zero of the U.S. Covid-19 epidemic, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo touted evidence that the embrace of social distancing could be slowing transmission rates.
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Speaking fiercely from the site of what will soon be a makeshift field hospital to treat coronavirus patients in New York City, Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a dire warning Tuesday.
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A former staffer from billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s failed presidential bid sued the campaign Monday, saying the tycoon reneged on his promise of pay and benefits through November 2020, leaving the team without health insurance in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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With 40% of the nation’s confirmed Covid-19 cases, the state of New York was put on an order Friday morning to stay home.
Read moreLinda Fairstein, former head of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Sex Crimes Unit, claims Netflix and Ava DuVernay defamed her in the movie “When They See Us,” about the prosecution of the Central Park Five rape and assault case, in federal court.
Read moreNew York City will close the nation’s largest public school system on Monday, sending over 1.1 million children home in hopes of curbing the spread of coronavirus.
Read moreThe former director of food supply chain management claims the New York City Department of Education harassed and demoted her to retaliate for her true complaints that “pizza with green discoloration was being served to children attending DOE schools,” in New York County Supreme Court.
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Even as the Southern District of New York suspends a new jury trial starting next week, Chief U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon aims to keep the court services going as much as possible during the novel coronavirus outbreak.
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Hours after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo cut the lights on Broadway, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a state of emergency Thursday due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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A New York judge sentenced ex-Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein to 23 years in prison Wednesday for two forced sex acts perpetrated against women in the entertainment business in 2006 and 2013.
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One week after confirming New York’s first positive case of coronavirus, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a 1-mile “containment area” Tuesday for the downstate suburb where COVID-19 cases are surging.
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The Southern District of New York, one of the most influential federal courts in the United States, shut its doors Monday to people who have visited five of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus epidemic within the last 14 days.
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Inmates of the scandal-plagued Metropolitan Correctional Center can expect to go at least another week without hearing from their family or lawyers, officials said Thursday, as a lockdown of the federal prison drags on.
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The first confirmed case of coronavirus in New York state is a woman in her 30s who had recently traveled to Iran, officials announced Monday.
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The federal jail in New York City where wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein took his own life is on lockdown as authorities try to determine whether someone smuggled a gun inside one of the most secure federal jails in the country, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Read moreThe New York attorney general sued Chestnut Holdings of New York, manager of 6,000 apartments in 134 buildings in New York City, claiming it did not conduct annual investigations and remediation of apartments containing children under 6, putting them at risk of lead poisoning, in Bronx County Supreme Court.
Read moreThe guardian of Nicholas Feliciano sued New York City, claiming guards at Rikers Island prison watched for seven minutes as he tried to commit suicide, catastrophically injuring himself, in New York County Supreme Court.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James accused the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission on Thursday of a 14-year fraud on license medallions that cost hundreds of cabbies some $810 million.
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