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In the latest sign of Donald Trump’s plunging stock as a business brand, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city is moving ahead with plans to cancel its business contracts with the Trump Organization including the company’s famous Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park. “New York City doesn't do business with…

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called Sunday for the shutdown of non-essential businesses, schools and restaurants in nine areas in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens starting Wednesday. The mayor cited a spike in the areas of COVID-19 infections. The shutdowns would start on Wednesday and include public and…

New York City’s recovery from the depths of COVID-19 has prompted a nagging question: How are people supposed to get around by subway and bus in the age of social distancing? Mayor Bill de Blasio fielded a couple of queries on that topic during his Thursday press briefing at City Hall. One reporter even asked if the…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that the current COVID-19 relief bill being hashed out in Congress must include help to stricken local governments to avoid a "real recession" in the country. “If they don't make this bill right, frankly, they shouldn't pass it because it will be the last bill… If this bill does…

New York City began work Thursday on a prominent, yellow-lettered “Black Lives Matter” mural on the street in front of Trump Tower. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, long a critic of Donald Trump’s presidency and the drain of his Manhattan headquarters on city’s resources, has backed the mural as a necessary show of…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state has “done the impossible” by controlling the coronavirus, going from the epicenter of the disease to one of the leading states containing it. Cuomo made the comments in what he said was his final daily briefing. He has delivered 111 straight days of comments as the pandemic…

New York City, the global epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, is taking its first tentative steps to reopen 100 days after the pandemic began. Retail stores as well as construction and manufacturing sites welcomed back between 200,000 and 400,000 workers as the city began the first of four phases in its reopening. A…

The final night of the New York City curfew arrived a day earlier than planned, as Mayor Bill de Blasio unexpectedly lifted the ban Sunday morning. "New York City: We are lifting the curfew, effective immediately," de Blasio tweeted, “Yesterday and last night we saw the very best of our city. Tomorrow we take the…

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio anticipates that the city will be on track to reopen “as much normal as we can be” by the start of September, with restrictions eased on certain businesses before then. “I believe right now we are on a good track for the thing I am focused on the most, which is getting us up and running…

Reopening the coronavirus epicenter of New York state is going to be tricky, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday. The needs of the downstate and dense cities are far different than the rural upstate locations. But the governor offered a rough roadmap on how he’ll navigate the issue, and said some businesses in the state…

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said the first thing the city will do when it emerges from the grip of COVID-19 is hold a ticker tape parade for first responders and health care workers. “It’s no fun to tell you that May events are canceled and June events are canceled and to tell you to practice social distancing and…

UPDATE, SUNDAY A.M.: Neither side appears ready to back down in the ongoing debate over who has the authority to close New York City Schools for the remainder of the school year. A day after Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city’s schools were closing, Governor Andrew Cuomo continued to say that the final decision…