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New York State Senator Andrew Lanza, two council members and two assembly members say both of the borough's hospitals have the available number of beds and have met the rate of hospitalizations.

Queens lawmaker Eric Ulrich is demanding the City Council investigate Gov. Cuomo’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis in nursing homes, where thousands of residents have perished. Specifically, the Republican councilman wants to probe Cuomo’s controversial executive order mandating that nursing homes and other longterm care facilities admit seniors still positive for coronavirus after being discharged...

The blaze broke out just after 11 p.m. in a three-story home on Magazine Street, reports NJ.com.

The acting principal of a Brooklyn high school was secretly recorded saying that too many students — up to 71 percent — were failing remote classes, and that teachers should pass kids “just because they’re trying.” “If a child is engaged, if the child is doing work, but somehow the child doesn’t get it, gives...

The 751-bed nursing home has to submit a correction plan to be reviewed by the DOH. It could face fines ranging up to $10,000 if any violation directly resulted in patient harm, the DOH said.

Before the office closed in March because of the coronavirus pandemic, it issued upwards of 200 licenses a day, which had to be obtained in person.

These workers offer contact-free food delivery, but have plenty of contact with one another. A cluster of deliverymen, many carrying red and black Grubhub bags, are packing into a tiny West Village square to await their next run, sitting shoulder to shoulder — some without masks — and often bantering loudly or arguing. Some residents...

This bag of balls can be yours — if the auction price is right! Back in the day, fans at the old Polo Grounds hurled horsehides onto the diamond — but not because a hated opposing player had launched a home run. In June 1951, nearly two decades before the ritual became a thing at...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a statewide executive order Friday night that now allows any gathering of up to 10 people, so long as social distancing is observed. The surprise order permits “any non-essential gathering of ten or fewer individuals, for any lawful purpose or reason, provided that social distancing protocols and cleaning and disinfection protocols...

Pastors of city neighborhood churches hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic reacted cautiously to President Trump’s call Friday to reopen houses of worship. Pastor Adolphus Lacey of Bethany Baptist Church in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section Brooklyn said Trump has good intentions, but it’s too risky to have regular services now. “I will not put my congregants...