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…
Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a shout out to New Yorkers Friday night, saying, "We asked them to do something unimaginable" – social distancing in the most crowed place in the country. The Mayor appeared on HBO's virtually reconstituted Real Time with Bill Maher just as things in the Big Apple – the epicenter of the…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is taking no chances and has taken the huge step of closing all movie theaters in the city as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to theaters, nightclubs, movie theaters, small theater houses and concert venues will all close while restaurants will be limited to takeout…
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio chose MSNBC’s Morning Joe to announce that he was dropping out of the 2020 presidential race – and very quickly was mocked by President Donald Trump for his ill-fated White House bid.
“Oh no, really big political news, perhaps the biggest story in years! Part time Mayor of New York City, @…
Con Edison had to cut power to some 30,000 New York City customers on Sunday night, most of them in the Brooklyn borough.
As of 10:30 PM Eastern time, the outside temperature was still 87 degrees. The move to cut power was announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio, allegedly so that Con Ed could "make repairs and prevent a…
Bill Maher says there’s “overcrowding” among the Democratic presidential field and some of the candidates should "get the f*ck out." He weighed in on this week’s two-night Democratic debate and said time’s up for half of the 20 candidates who qualified for the match-up.
"Look, there's too many people in this race…
UPDATED with quotes from news conference, 1:02 PM: A helicopter has crashed onto the roof of a midtown Manhattan high rise building at 51st Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues, in rainy conditions and what looks to be a forced landing.
The neighborhood, just north of Times Square, is home to various media…
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who last week became the 23rd Democrat to announce a bid for the 2020 presidential nomination, is shrugging off the jeers of late-night TV comedians and the city tabloids.
In an appearance Tuesday morning on CNN’s New Day (watch it above and below), the candidate was shown in split…
Ronan Farrow took a swipe at the controversial last season of HBO's Game of Thrones as he hosted the Peabody Awards, an annual celebration of electronic media's deep dives into weighty topics from race and gender inequality, to mental illness, plastic pollution and ISIS.
"Why did Daenerys go so crazy?" Farrow griped…
