Adina Berliant
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The Coronavirus Thread: People Detained for Parole Violations Still at Risk, Advocates Say
The new budget totals $89.3 billion, with more than $2 billion in cuts. These cuts include service reductions for 50 municipal initiatives, but programs serving the city's youth incurred some of the most significant cuts. → Read More
The Coronavirus Thread: New Calls for Action to Protect Inmates as Death Rate Inches Up
The announcement came nearly four weeks after de Blasio on March 15 reluctantly closed the schools through April 19. Gov. Cuomo announced earlier this week that schools statewide would be closed through April 29. → Read More
The Coronavirus Thread: Mayor Sketches Plan for Moving Out of Crisis Mode
Of the deaths from the coronavirus so far 34 percent have been Latinos and 28 percent Blacks—compared with their population shares of 29 percent and 22 percent, respectively. → Read More
The Coronavirus Thread: COVID-19 is Disproportionately Killing NYC's Latinos and Blacks
Of the deaths from the coronavirus so far 34 percent have been Latinos and 28 percent Blacks—compared with their population shares of 29 percent and 22 percent, respectively. → Read More
The Coronavirus Thread: NYS's Deadliest Day Amid Signs of Slowdown, SYEP Canned
While the sheer numbers of job losses are staggering in the downstate area, the largest percentage loss of jobs is highest north and west of the city. → Read More
The Coronavirus Thread: 'Our Lives Were Turned Upside Down'
A testimonial from a teenager in Queens is not the worst tale of woe this episode will produce. It does, however, reflect the way life is being reframed by COVID-19. → Read More
The Coronavirus Thread: Parks Dept. Signals Funding Freeze to Nonprofits
Corey Johnson and Scott Stringer back a plan to relieve COVID-affected households of rental payments for 90 days. → Read More
The Coronavirus Thread: Broad Clemency Sought as COVID Hits State Prisons
If officials don't act, one letter read, 'they condemn all those in prison, both the people incarcerated and those charged with their care, to prolonged sickness and, in many cases, death.' → Read More
The Coronavirus Thread: Cuomo Extends School Closure, Names New Hospital Sites
'We need $4 billion, but we’re only at the starting point of this crisis. We will need substantially more than that to survive.' → Read More
The Coronavirus Thread: Virus Appears to be Accelerating, Cuomo Says
Meanwhile, the city comptroller 'forecasts a very sharp decline in specific sectors from March through the end of June, particularly in hotels, restaurants, retail and the cultural sector, as earnings collapse and unemployment soars.' → Read More
The Coronavirus Thread: Comptroller Sees Billions in Revenue Loss to City
Also: Workforce developments leaders are seeking sweeping city action to save careers. And the gov shuts barber shops and tattoo parlors. → Read More
The Coronavirus Thread: Suit Filed to Free 116 From Rikers, Citing COVID Threat
And the Queens district attorney said her prosecutors wouldn't move to send a defendant to Rikers 'without consideration of the risk that poses to defendants.' → Read More
The Coronavirus Thread: Queens DA Says She's Looking to Get People Off Rikers
The mayor said broad income support would be necessary and at a scale beyond the city or state's capacity. "We need the federal government to play a much bigger role and we haven't seen evidence of that yet," he said. → Read More
The Coronavirus Thread: State's Case Total Tops 1,300
News broke early Monday afternoon that a city Department of Correction worker had died of Coronavirus on Sunday night. Moments later, the Legal Aid Society made an unprecedented call for a moratorium on all arrests in New York City. → Read More
The Coronavirus Thread: Big Landlords Promise Eviction Halt
Amid reports of panic buying, all was normal at many supermarkets in low-income neighborhoods on Friday. → Read More