A new form of the coronavirus is spreading rapidly in New York City, and it carries a worrisome mutation that may weaken the effectiveness of…
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Covid-19 Slammed Her Neighborhood. She Can’t Find Her Father a Vaccine.
Still, obstacles remain. The sign-up system Walking down Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, Derrick Williams, 72, hung up the phone after talking with his daughter, who…
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The Virus Slammed Her Neighborhood. She Can’t Find Her Father a Vaccine.
Still, obstacles remain. The sign-up system Walking down Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, Derrick Williams, 72, hung up the phone after talking with his daughter, who…
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New Yorkers Who Fled Virus Are Returning Home, Warily
On the weekend of March 13, just as Mayor Bill de Blasio was flirting with a stay-at-home order, Viviana Spiers and her husband, Rich, who…
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Did These New York Clinics Ignore Rules on Who Gets Vaccinated First?
The coronavirus vaccine has finally arrived in New York, but only a select group of at-risk people are supposed to receive it first. Those restrictions…
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Why 530 Frozen Bodies Sit in a Brooklyn Warehouse
On April 28, the city opened the long-term freezer storage facility at the Brooklyn pier, which can hold at least 1,500 bodies. (The city declined…
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Covid-19 Taught Me to Value My Friends
I finished television during the pandemic and started on movies. Now I’m almost finished with those, too! My hips have locked in a supine position…
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A Deluge of Coronavirus Victims and a Brooklyn Funeral Home’s ‘Horrifying Disrespect’
Sharon Escobar couldn’t recognize her father. His face was so badly decomposed that she and her mother were eventually able to identify him only because…
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Save New York’s Small Businesses
It’s never been easy to run a small business in New York City. The city’s entrepreneurs have long faced dizzying odds: high rents and high…
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Keeping the Holiday Season Bright
“These are things that I did as a kid that really lit up the whole Christmas season,” said Ms. Knutzen, who grew up in Brooklyn.…
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