Guns, Handcuffs, Masks, Gloves: NYPD Preps For Coronavirus
NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s largest police department is stockpiling masks and gloves, dusting off old emergency plans and taking to social media to dispel rumors, such as one tha...
NY Gov. Says Tens Of Thousands Could Be Infected, As First 2 Deaths Reported in New York
NEW YORK (AP) - New York saw its first two coronavirus-related deaths Saturday - an 82-year-old woman in New York City who contracted the illness while dealing with an underlying r...
Big City, Big Worry: New Yorkers Fret As Bustling City Slows
NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers will awake Friday to find the coronavirus has left their their famously bustling city with no Broadway, no basketball games, no big gatherings, and a po...
NYC Officials Knock Down Train And Subway Closure Rumors
NEW YORK CITY (AP) — New York City officials moved swiftly Thursday to address a false text message spreading on social media claiming that the police department was planning to pu...
New York Bans All Gatherings Of 500 People Or More In An Attempt To Contain Virus
NEW YORK (AP) — Museums prepared to shut their doors, the opera was silenced, lights dimmed on Broadway, big gatherings were banned and the subway was shunned as the largest city i...
COJO Flatbush Postpones Legislative Breakfast Due To Public Health Concerns
FLATBUSH (VINnews) — COJO Flatbush CEO Louis Welz announced on Wednesday that the social service agency’s 41st annual Community Legislative Breakfast, scheduled for Sunday, March 1...
Vaad Harabanim Of Bergen County Shuts Down Shuls, Yeshivos, Shabbos Guests, Levayos, Shiva
BERGEN COUNTY, NJ (JTA) - The Rabbinical Council of Bergen County in New Jersey, in conjunction with local synagogues and day schools, just adopted sweeping regulations designed to...
NY Employee Of Meridian Capital Tests Positive For Coronavirus
NEW YORK (VINnews) — An employee of Meridian Capital, a popular commercial real estate brokerage, has tested positive for coronavirus.
The employee is based in New York.
“We ...
Wary New York Subway Riders Carry On Amid Virus Concerns
NEW YORK (AP) — Touching a germy pole or interacting with a sick person was always a concern for the millions of people who use the New York City public transportation system every...
Port Authority Chief Tests Positive For Coronavirus, Gov. Cuomo Says
NEW YORK (VINnews) - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that Rick Cotton, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, has tested positive for the n...
Rockland County: Health Department Warns Of Potential Coronavirus Exposure in Atrium Wedding Hall
New City, NY (VINnews) — Rockland County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert advises residents that two Rockland County residents who have been confirmed to have Coro...
Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein: Eliminate Driver’s License Suspension Due To Unpaid Fine
NEW YORK (VINnews) - Is your driver’s license valid? It may not be. In the last 28 months, New York issued nearly 1.7 million driver’s license suspensions for not paying traffic ti...
My Kids’ Jewish School Closed. But Here’s Why My Family’s Coronavirus Quarantine Hasn’t Been So Bad.
NEW YORK (JTA) —“Really, Mother?! A BELL?!”
Dinner was ready at around 7 p.m., so I walked down the hall to my children’s wing and dropped off their plates — with a bell, so the...
Woman Indicted With Hate Crime For Anti-Semitic Attack On New York City Subway
NEW YORK (JNS) — A woman who went on an anti-Semitic tirade against two Jewish people on a New York City subway in December was indicted with a hate crime by a Manhattan grand jury...
New York Coronvirus Cases Double Overnight; Currently 22 Confirmed
NEW YORK (AP) — New York state's coronavirus caseload doubled overnight to 22, as the mayor of the nation's largest city implored the federal government Thursday to send more test ...
NY Gov.: Jewish Family Wife, Children, Neighbor of Westchester Coronavirus Victim Also Test Positive, Taking State to 6 Cases
NEW YORK (AP) - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that the wife, two children and a neighbor of a New York lawyer who is hospitalized in critical condition with COVID-...
Yeshiva Parent Confirmed with Coronavirus; Three Westchester-area Orthodox Jewish Schools Close for the Day
NEW YORK (VINnews-Sandy Eller) — An Orthodox Jewish man has been hospitalized with coronavirus, prompting the closure of three local yeshivas.
In a Tuesday morning news conferen...
New York Rail Tunnel Repairs Could Mean More Rider Headaches
NEW YORK (AP) — The news that Amtrak will ramp up repairs to its century-old Hudson River rail tunnel while a project to build a new tunnel languishes likely will translate into mo...
Crown Heights: Jewish Boy Assaulted In Unprovoked Gym Attack [VIDEO]
CROWN HEIGHTS (VINnews) — The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating a hate crime against a Jewish boy that took place in Crown Heights this week.
A black male approached ...
$1,000,007 Powerball Ticket Sold In Brooklyn
BROOKLYN (VINnews) - The New York Lottery today announced one second-prize ticket for the February 26 Powerball drawing was sold in BROOKLYN. The ticket is worth a guaranteed $1,00...