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New York City will be open for TV and movie crews to film as of Monday, entering the “Phase 4” of the plan to reopen facilities and services shuttered by the pandemic. NYC was cleared Friday for the phase, but with some restrictions still in place. There will be no indoor dining, and malls and museums remain…

UPDATED at 1pm PT with more details from MTV, Barclays officials New York City, which was the initial global epicenter of COVID-19, will host the MTV Video Music Awards on August 30 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed the date and venue Monday during one of his regular briefings about the…

EXCLUSIVE: Despite recent, scattered press reports suggesting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was snubbing Broadway by shutting the industry out of his New York Forward Re-Opening Advisory Board, the state and the theater industry are working closely on how to re-start, Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League…

As many as one in five residents of New York City appear to have tested positive for antibodies to the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today. If the preliminary results prove correct, approximately 1.7 million New Yorkers have been exposed to the virus and survived. The larger-than-anticipated figure…

Pandemic deaths declined in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo said in his daily briefing. But he cautioned, "Happy days are not here again." The governor reported 540 deaths in the last 24 hours at his daily press briefing in Albany. "That is still an overwhelming number every day." Still, the tally is down 110 deaths…

With film and TV production booming in New York, the state has implemented a diversity job training development fund aimed at the entertainment industry, calling it the first of its kind in the U.S.  Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said he fund will initially provide $1.05 million per year. It was passed as part of a…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for the state’s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to resign following allegations that he physically abused romantic partners. Four women accused Schneiderman of abusing them while in romantic relationships in an account published by The New Yorker. Two of the women who spoke on the…

A bill in New York that would link production incentives to diversity hiring is waiting for the signature of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has until midnight on December 18 to sign it or veto it. The bill, which sailed through the state Legislature, would provide $5 million in annual tax credits for projects that hire…