New York City

The New York City Police Benevolent Association endorsed President Donald Trump on Friday – a union representing 24,000 police officers in the city. Trump welcomed a group of enthusiastic New York City officers to his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, for an event to announce the endorsement. The police union…

Apple has already taken steps to help improve the experience of using an iPhone with Face ID while wearing a mask. New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, however, has penned a letter directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook, calling on the company to take further steps to educate customers about…

New York is a place that rapidly adopts, and normalizes, change. Things don’t exist one day and then, after a week, it feels like they’ve been around forever. Recently, I walked around with my digital sketchbook for the first time since March, when life in New York halted completely. This…

Photo of home for sale in Huntington, New York on August 5, 2020. New York City suburbs are seeing a huge increase in real estate demand amid the pandemic.Thomas A. Ferrara/Newsday RM via Getty ImagesNew York City apartment sales plunged in July, according to a report from the real-estate firm…

The city that never sleeps was plunged into an early morning darkness when parts of New York City experienced a brief power outage. Videos captured by residents show the moment the electricity came back.Aug. 7, 2020Read More

Travelers venturing into New York City on Thursday found a new line of defense against the coronavirus manning checkpoints in all five boroughs — armed sheriff’s deputies.Drivers heading into Gotham via the tunnels and bridges were pulled over at random. Commuters arriving at Penn Station and the Port Authority were…

Joseph Spector New York State TeamPublished 7:36 PM EDT Aug 6, 2020ALBANY, N.Y. – New York City will establish registration checkpoints at key entryways, such as bridges and tunnels, to ensure travelers  coming from states with high COVID-19 infection rates go into quarantine when they come across the border.Mayor Bill de Blasio…

NEW YORK: New York City will put up COVID-19 quarantine checkpoints at key entry points to ensure that incoming travelers from 35 states with outbreaks comply with the state's 14-day quarantine mandate, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday (Aug 5).The measure underscores the determination of what was once the…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chicago will teach online only when school resumes in September, the mayor said on Wednesday, and New York City announced checkpoints at bridges and tunnels to enforce a quarantine on travelers from 35 states on a list of coronavirus hot spots.The teachers' union and many parents…

The New York journalist Pete Hamill, an acclaimed columnist, editor and novelist who dominated pages at the city's tabloid newspapers, died on Wednesday.He was 85.His brother, Denis Hamill, and literary agent Esther Newberg both confirmed the writer's passing to NBC News. Hamill fell at his Brooklyn home on Saturday and…