“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,” to borrow from the opening lines of Charles Dickens’s “A Tale of Two Cities.” In this case, the epoch of coronavirus that has infected some 2.2 million people globally has essentially created […]
Occupying 131 acres in Long Island Sound, off the Bronx shore, Hart Island is the largest public burial ground in the United States. It has been New York City’s public burial ground for more than 150 years, and it is the final resting place of more than 1 million individuals — mostly bodies that went […]
Read Part 1 of this column here. The feds are using our beloved Internal Revenue Service to distribute so-called Economic Impact Payments (EIPs) to many Americans, also known as “stimulus checks.” Singles can receive up to $1,200, married couples can receive up to $2,400. Minor kids under the age of 17 are worth up to […]
Read Part 2 of this column here. The government is using the Internal Revenue Service to distribute so-called Economic Impact Payments (EIPs) to many Americans, also known as “stimulus checks.” Singles can receive up to $1,200, married couples can receive up to $2,400. Your under-age-17 kids are worth up to another $500 each. However, EIPs […]
As a teenager in the 1970s, I worked in a ghost town that bustled with people and activity. For someone who hadn’t yet been out in the world, the town hummed with an excitement that I hoped would mirror my future life in cities around the globe. On Main Street, the restaurants were packed, and […]
The head of the Office of Foreign Assets Control said Friday she wants to ensure that economic sanctions against foreign countries do not impede U.S. humanitarian relief for the COVID-19 pandemic, but the former director of the agency said the business community wants it to go further. The Treasury Department arm on Thursday issued guidance […]
Black and Latino New Yorkers are being hospitalized with COVID-19 at double the rate of white New Yorkers, according to new statistics the city health department released late Thursday. “We’re in dire need when it comes to black and brown communities,” said state Assemblyman Al Taylor, who joined a teleconference on Friday from his car, […]
Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight, providing evidence from controlled tests of what scientists believed — but had not yet proved — to be true. A briefing on the preliminary results, marked for official use […]
Joe Biden on Friday stumbled through an interview on his proposed response to the coronavirus pandemic. Following a long and disjointed introduction, Biden appeared to suggest policy proposals similar to those Franklin D. Roosevelt employed to coordinate manufacturing for the war effort in the 1940’s. BIDEN: “Um, you know, there’s a, uh, during World War […]
As New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was giving his daily press briefing on the state’s coronavirus response Friday, President Trump was apparently listening and didn’t like what he heard. ”Governor Cuomo should spend more time ‘doing’ and less time ‘complaining,’” Trump tweeted midway through the press conference, which was being carried live on cable news networks. “Get […]