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Emily Gerteis is a nurse practitioner, but she’s not toiling away at Big Apple hospitals -- she’s a primary care medical provider for homeless New Yorkers.

A Manhattan steakhouse has redesigned its restaurant for a post-coronavirus world — setting up Plexiglass table dividers between tables to keep germs from fellow diners contained.  Stratis Morfogen from downtown’s Brooklyn Chop House unveiled the changes on his Instagram account and said guests can expect full body temperature scanners at the entrance, hats with plastic...

New York City’s mass transit system has kept running throughout the coronavirus pandemic — but it is a ghost of its former self. Ridership on the subway is down 90 percent. Service is running at 75 percent. For the first time ever, the subways close for four hours every night so the MTA can clean...

Police closed down Beard Barberia Cut & Shave in Williamsburg just minutes after Liberate America founder Frank Scurlock cut his girlfriend's hair for $1 as part of the stunt, but neither Scurlock nor shop owner Ilya Iskhakov were cited for violating the restrictions.

The MTA is rolling out a new weapon in its battle to keep the city’s buses and trains clean during the COVID-19 pandemic — coronavirus-killing ultraviolet lamps. The agency will roll out 230 far ultraviolet-C lamps next week on select trains, buses and agency facilities, MTA Chairman Pat Foye said Tuesday. “These UV lights that...

Drum teacher Carlos Valdez, allegedly groomed the student before she started classes at the school, sending her messages on social media and creating a mentor-mentee relationship, according to the suit.

New Yorkers who flock to Long Island for the holiday weekend should be welcomed, Mayor Bill de Blasio insisted Tuesday, in the wake of being ripped by a top Nassau County official as “irresponsible” for creating crowds by keeping the city’s beaches closed. “This should not be about any ill feeling toward people depending on...

Any school that holds underground classes– such as the Brooklyn yeshiva that flouted social distancing mandates in the process — will be shut down, Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed Tuesday. “It’s absolutely unacceptable what the folks at this yeshiva did. Everyone had been warned,” de Blasio said on PIX 11. The NYPD closed an Orthodox...

A 14-year-old Queens boy battling a rare coronavirus-related syndrome found in children says he woke up with “fire” in his veins, according to a report. Jack McMorrow first fell sick in mid-April with mild symptoms, including a slight fever and rashes on his hands, CNN reported. But then days later, the teen woke up with...

The city’s top cop said Tuesday he has accepted Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot’s apology over her crassly worded rejection of a high-ranking police official’s request for more face masks. “[Barbot] reached out to me in the past week and essentially reiterated what’s in that apology,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said on NY1....