Tag: Corona virus in New York

New York City landlords slap tenants with record rent increases

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Based on the recent rise in rents, New York is more than twice as likely to live in. As the pandemic subsides, landlords are afflicting renters with higher monthly rents — part of the record-high housing costs sweeping the nation, reports show. “It should be illegal,” New York neighborhood agent Brett Allen He told The Post about the ridiculous recent increases in rent he’s seen in neighborhoods regardless of amenities or renovations. “It’s terrible. I see a lot of people being evicted from their homes, people who paid their rent…

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New York Governor, Brian Benjamin, contracted the COVID virus after a Democratic convention

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New York Governor Brian Benjamin has tested positive for COVID-19 — just days after attending the state’s Democratic convention that includes Governor Kathy Hochhol and Hillary Clinton. “I tested positive for COVID today. Fortunately, I am feeling very upset, reinforced and in good spirits, as I have only mild symptoms,” Benjamin He said Sunday evening in a tweet. The lieutenant governor addressed the conference Thursday, He posted a video on Twitter of him sneaking into the podium While not wearing a mask. Later, he and Hochul holding hands on stage…

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COVID-19 cases in New York drop to pre-Omicron level

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New York Gov. Cathy Hochhol said Saturday that New York’s COVID-19 positivity rate has fallen below 2 percent for the first time since Omicron was called the “alarming alternative” last fall. Of the 177,826 tests for COVID-19 that came out Friday, 3,050 — or 1.72 percent — tested positive for the virus. The statewide positivity rate, when measured over a seven-day average, remained just over 2% at 2.36%. The Big Apple’s seven-day positivity rate on Friday was 1.43%. The New York statewide COVID-19 positivity rate has fallen below 2 percent…

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Representative Elise Stefanik is at war with the North School District

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Representative Elise Stefanik has declared war on North State school district administrators for allegedly suspending a preschool for posting the legislator’s Facebook posts. A January 25 post from Stefanek offered an angry condemnation of Governor Hoechul’s plans to continue the mask mandate statewide — even after a state judge dropped it. “Kathy Hochhol’s authoritarian mandate has been declared illegal by the New York Supreme Court. Masks are not mandatory for students as of RIGHT NOW!” Stefanik Wrote. The now powerful Republican convention chairman is threatening to summon the leaders of…

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Hochul enhanced mandate clippings for healthcare workers

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New York Gov. Cathy Hochhol on Friday rescinded a controversial mandate from the state that would have required all health care workers to get a booster dose of the coronavirus by Monday to avoid a worsening staff shortage. The state health board approved the emergency ordinance last month when COVID-19 omicron wages were still rampant, despite complaints from nursing home industry officials that the mandate would exacerbate an already severe staff shortage at many facilities by triggering layoffs. Hochhol and state health officials appeared to heed those warnings by scrapping…

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Eric Adams says banning Kyrie Irving from the ‘unfair’ Barclays won’t change the rule

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Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday agreed with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver who said it was “absolutely not logical” that Nets star Kyrie Irving could not play at Barclays Center while visiting players who had not been vaccinated against COVID-19 — but they cautioned would result in Change the rule to sending “wrong message”. After a news conference about the city’s 2023 budget, Adams told reporters he was “struggling” with an aspect of the municipal vaccination regulation that allows players inside sports stadiums but bars athletes who live in the five…

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Majority of New York City parents willing to dump their 5- to 11-year-olds: Poll

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A new survey has revealed that the majority of parents in the metro area of ​​New York City are ready to vaccinate their young children against the Corona virus. Fifty-six percent of parents with children under 12 in the city and surrounding suburbs said they were very or somewhat likely to have been stabbed with COVID-19, according to the CUNY School of Public Health/New York Vaccine Literacy Campaign survey. . 35 percent of parents said they were unlikely to be vaccinated and the rest were unsure. The survey was conducted…

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The richest tribe saw a resident skip town when COVID-19 struck

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A new analysis by Comptroller Scott Stringer has found that residents of New York’s wealthiest neighborhoods were five times more likely to flee from the five boroughs during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic than those living elsewhere in the city. A review of address change information provided by the United States Postal Service revealed that the bulk of Big Apple exits came from those who live in zip codes where average incomes exceed $110,000 per year, such as Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Battery Park City, Greenwich Village, Murray…

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Dozens of New York hotels in danger as international tourism returns

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Tourists are preparing to head to the Big Apple during the holiday season after international travel bans were lifted last week — but it may be too little and too late for dozens of New York City hotels. The pandemic has already wiped out a number of iconic properties, including the historic Roosevelt Hotel near Grand Central Station, the Excelsior Hotel on the Upper West Side, and the century-old Pennsylvania Hotel across from Madison Square Garden, which now faces the wrecking ball. The Post has learned that more than 30…

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Cuomo ban health department. From working with NYC officials during COVID: Ex-President

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A former infectious disease expert at the state health department testified that Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office prevented the agency from working closely with the New York City Department of Health and county public health officials during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. Elizabeth Dufort, the former medical director of the state health department’s office of epidemiology who herself conducted the first COVID-19 swab test in Como last year, made a surprising claim during questioning by attorneys appointed by state attorney general Letitia James who investigated sexual and other…

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