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Andrew Cuomo Is Clinging to Power and Rewarding His Billionaire Loyalists
Real estate titans and landlords might just be New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s last base of support. The embattled governor is rewarding them handsomely for their loyalty. ...[Read more]
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NYPD Goon Squad Manual Teaches Officers to Violate Protesters Rights
Exclusive: Internal NYPD documents shed new light on the Strategic Response Group, or SRG, the heavily militarized police unit behind the crackdown on George Floyd protesters. ...[Read more]
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NYC Gears Up For Coronavirus Crisis Rent Strike
Housing advocates are organizing a massive rent strike May 1 to pressure New York lawmakers to cancel rents during the COVID-19 shutdown. Donnette Leftord, a Flatbush mom of three and an undocumented New Yorker, wouldn't pay her $1,700 month rent next mon ...[Read more]
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N.Y.C. Death Toll Soars Past 10,000 in Revised Virus Count
New York City, already a world epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, sharply increased its death toll by more than 3,700 victims on Tuesday, after officials said they were now including people who had never tested positive for the virus but were presumed ...[Read more]
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Rich flee NYC, workers deal with COVID-19
With 67,822 people infected with coronavirus and 2,472 dead, the residents of this sprawling city of 8.6 million people have been warned to stay at home. Yet the mail is delivered, the trash taken away, food is stocked and sold in supermarkets. The ambula ...[Read more]
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New York City to Bury COVID-19 Victims in Mass Graves on Hart Island
Authorities in New York City, the epicentre of the current COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, will begin burying victims of the disease in mass graves on Hart Island in the Long Island Sound, a mayoral spokeswoman told The New York Post. "For decades ...[Read more]
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China is donating 1,000 ventilators to help New York in coronavirus fight
The Chinese government has facilitated a donation of 1,000 ventilators to New York set to arrive at JFK Airport today, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday. ...[Read more]
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Bernie Sanders backs millionaire tax to fix New York subway
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's fight for a "millionaires' tax" to help repair the country's largest subway system got a boost as U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, one of the nation's most popular politicians, endorsed the plan on Monday. “What the mayo ...[Read more]
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