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Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a media availability on COVID-19. City Hall. Friday, March 27, 2020.
Cuomo announced plans to build overflow hospitals at the New York Expo Center in the Bronx, Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal and the College of Staten Island.
‘We need to keep our eye on one thing and one thing only and that’s the hospitals. That’s the battlefield.’
Supporters say it looks like a key homeowner-assistance program could be left out of this year’s state spending plan.
Our reporters captured scenes of the first full day under the governor’s order for 100 percent of non-essential employees to stay home.
One thing everyone can agree on is that things look much much worse now.
A Brooklyn Councilmember believes the de Blasio administration is moving towards a policy of temporarily releasing medically vulnerable inmates, as advocates demand the city pull back on low-level enforcement.
Colleges can shift to online learning. Teams can cancel sporting events. Restaurants might close. But the services on which homeless New Yorkers depend—like soup kitchens, pantries and shelters—can’t exactly ask their clients to make other arrangements during the Coronavirus crisis.
It could have reflected a disparity in customers’ ability to afford to purchase—or have room to store—emergency stockpiles.
‘Downtown Flushing is not immune to the consequences of transformative large-scale new development that inadvertently leaves many behind.’
Despite being nonprofits and receiving billions in subsidies, New York State hospitals went to court more than 30,000 times over the past five years to force patients to pay bills that many simply could not afford, a report released Thursday found.