New York City

Politics

Vulnerable New Yorkers hit hardest by COVID-19 – and heat waves

New York City needs to make plans now to protect older and chronically ill residents during the heat of summer.

NYPD

Politics

Can the NYPD keep people apart without arrests?

Social distancing regulations raise new challenges for police and old questions of racially disparate enforcement.

Bill de Blasio

Politics

De Blasio’s disagreements with the health department

The mayor, frequently at odds with the department, selected the city’s public hospital system for COVID-19 contact tracing.

MTA

Politics

NYC subway shutdown makes history, garners criticism

Reviews are in for the first planned overnight shutdown of the subways in 115 years.

Politics

Politics

Should protests be allowed during COVID-19?

Outrage over social distancing arrests could loosen restrictions on organizing protests.

New York State

Politics

2020 Congressional Primary Guide: Pandemic Edition

How each House race is shaping up – and how COVID-19 could turn everything upside-down.

New York City

Politics

Cuomo keeps co-opting de Blasio’s ideas

The governor has a tendency to dismiss the NYC mayor's suggestions, and then implement them himself.

New York City

Politics

Upstate’s role in reopening New York City

What happens in urban areas of central and western New York could have big implications for downstate.

Bill de Blasio

Politics

Weekend weather offers a glimpse of the ‘new normal’

New Yorkers are defining the “new normal” as we speak – one picnic, fishing trip and stoop hangout at a time.

New York State

Politics

New York’s plan to reopen

COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths are declining but the state needs more testing, supplies and federal funding to safely reopen.