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Linda Bouferguen was arrested twice this month outside City Hall during small, socially distanced demonstrations against New York's shutdown.

Edward Tully, a 54-year-old real estate agent in Park Slope, has seen business hit hard by the pandemic. However, the father of two teenagers discovered an unexpected upside: time with his kids. Let’s be honest: teenagers rarely hang out at home with their parents. That has changed, and I’m grateful. My son Daniel, a college...

Sayaka Fukudu is a 41-year-old East Harlem shoe designer behind the company Sand by Saya New York. She married her fiancé James Storr Brown, a financier, on April 18 via Zoom ceremony.

A testy Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Saturday again blamed federal guidance — not himself — for New York’s deadly policy of shunting thousands of coronavirus patients from hospitals into nursing homes. “New York followed the president’s agency’s guidance,” Cuomo said during his daily briefing on Saturday, in response to questions about his March 25 directive...

Police surrounded a Queens home after shots were fired outside, leaving two men hurt. The drama unfolded outside 139-29 Glassboro Ave. in Jamaica shortly before 4 a.m. Saturday, police said. One man, 25, was shot in the torso and another, 44, was shot in the leg, cops said. At one point, police surrounded the Glassboro...

The Yankees are playing hardball with ticket refunds amid COVID-19, according to fuming fans who are prepared to distance themselves from the beloved Bronx Bombers. “It is simply unconscionable for the Yankees, a business valued in the billions of dollars, to be holding fans’ money at a time when the federal government is mailing out...

Dr. Nicole Conklin is essential because without her, hundreds could die. As the animal keeper at Liberty Science Center, the 27-year-old is in charge of caring for and feeding the more than 100 species at the now-shuttered museum. Conklin is on-site to care for and maintain the health of Rosie, the boa constrictor; Mickey, the...

Zudi Daci, 79, suffered severe head trauma after being struck at the intersection of Arlene Street and Signs Road in the Bulls Head section at about 8:20 a.m. Friday, authorities said. He later died at Richmond University Medical Center.

One man was killed and another hurt after gunfire erupted in Brooklyn, police said. Cops responding to a 911 call of a man shot in front of 656 Bradford St. in East New York at about 9:45 p.m. Friday found Noel Kennedy, 23, with a gunshot wound to his upper torso. Kennedy was taken to...

Dr. John McNelis, the chairman of surgery at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, secured a precious ICU bed for a week — even though he wasn’t on a ventilator or intubated — and received kid-gloves care at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, according to outraged workers.