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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption New York City has about 27,000 restaurants New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered sweeping restrictions on public life to take effect in the state amid the coronavirus pandemic. Restaurants, theatres and casinos will close at 20:00 ET (24:00 GMT) Monday and non-essential shops…

(NEW YORK) — New York City will close the nation’s largest public school system on Monday, sending over 1.1 million children home in hopes of curbing the spread of coronavirus. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the decision to close schools through at least April 20 and possibly for the school…

By Mark Kaufman2020-03-15 17:49:08 UTC The nation's top infectious disease researchers have repeatedly warned, if not begged, Americans to practice social distancing as the contagious coronavirus spreads through the population.  That's because, due to a woeful lack of testing in the nation, no one knows how many Americans are infected…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has announced a one-month ban on gatherings of 500 people or more in New York City to help prevent the spread of coronavirus, turning the lights out on Broadway. On Thursday, Cuomo said in a press conference that gatherings of more than 500 people…

If the coronavirus outbreak were to get out of control in New York City, government officials have a plan for how to deal with all the dead bodies.The plan, developed by the chief medical examiner in 2008, would see refrigerated units placed outside hospitals to store the dead temporarily, and…

For a few minutes near the end of his first presidential debate, Mike Bloomberg was dead. At 9:38 p.m. Eastern time, a Wikipedia user named DQUACK02 added some text to the Wikipedia page for the former Democratic presidential candidate and New York City mayor:“death_date   = {{Death date and age|2020|02|19|1942|02|14}};…

On a February afternoon at the Manhattan arts complex The Shed, 19 white men are practicing an interpretive dance sequence on rolling chairs. In between takes, they are at ease; they playfully slide off their chairs, manspread, roll around in circles, drum absent-mindedly on their knees. But no such repose…

Alex Nicoll/Business Insider This story is available exclusively on Business Insider Prime. Join BI Prime and start reading now. With rising demand for e-commerce, small warehouses near city centers are now highly sought after real estate.Bond, a logistics startup, has opened six "nano-warehouses" across New York City, turning vacant retail space…

MSI’s take on the Radeon RX 5700 costs $280 (normally $340) at Newegg after you enter the offer code VGAPCRW456 at checkout and send away for a $30 mail-in rebate (via Slickdeals). As my colleague Tom Warren found in his in-depth comparison post, this card is roughly on par with…

In 1954, Marilyn Monroe—already a sex symbol and a movie star—posed on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 52nd Street in New York City, for a scene intended to appear in her 1955 film The Seven Year Itch. The breeze blowing up through a subway grate sent her white dress…