NEW YORK (VINnews) — The Queens couple that was arrested earlier this week for making anti-Semitic remarks and ripping the masks off Hasidic men in Williamsburg, were the victims of an attack at the scene. At least that’s the way their attorney tells it. According to police, Paulo Pinho, 35, and his wife, Clelia Pinho, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI brought weapons charges Wednesday following a New York City sting operation against two men, one of whom espoused racist and anti-Semitic views on social media and had been acquiring tactical military gear, authorities said. Joseph Miner, 29, and Daniel Jou, 40, were charged with buying firearms with obliterated serial […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Leventhal felt a sneeze coming and panicked. The Brooklynite left his cloth face mask at home for a morning run in a park last week. Walking home, he turned toward an empty street and let the sneeze out, hoping no one would notice. Too bad for him, there’s no hiding […]

NEW YORK (AP) – A total of 52 children in New York City have been diagnosed with an inflammatory syndrome possibly linked to COVID-19 and another 10 cases are pending, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday. Of those 62 confirmed or possible cases, 25 have tested positive for the coronavirus and another 22 had antibodies […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Several regions of upstate New York that have shown progress in taming the coronavirus outbreak are ready to gradually restart economic activity by the end of the week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday. Cuomo shut down the entire state March 22 as the New York City area emerged as a global […]

NEW ROCHELLE, NY (JTA) – The attorney at the center of the coronavirus outbreak in the New York City area, said he he has no idea how he contracted the deadly virus. Lawrence Garbuz of suburban New Rochelle, told Savannah Guthrie in an interview aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show that he went to his […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus may be thousands of fatalities worse than the official tally kept by the city and state, according to an analysis released Monday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between mid-March and early May, about 24,000 more people died in the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Since the first line connected Lower Manhattan to Harlem in 1904, New York’s subway has never ceased running. There were brief blips of interruption after 9/11 and in the last decade for hurricanes and blizzards, but for more than 115 years the rumbling on the rails has kept the click-clack heartbeat […]

BROOKLYN, NY (VINnews) – Two people were arrested for allegedly ripping face masks off of Jewish people in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. Paulo Pinho, 35, and his wife, Clelia Pinho, 46, were arrested on a charge of aggravated harassment as a hate crime after a confronting with a large group […]

NEW YORK (AP) – New York nursing homes must start twice-weekly coronavirus testing for all staffers and will no longer be sent COVID-19 patients leaving hospitals, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday after facing criticism over the handling of nursing facility outbreaks. The new testing requirements and ban on hospitals sending coronavirus patients to nursing homes […]