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City Hall Recruiting Additional Contact Tracers to Work on Staten Island

The move comes as the borough logs the highest seven-day average of positive tests in the city amid growing COVID-19-related hospitalizations.

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New York City Regained 11,000 Restaurant Jobs Last Month. Now Those — and More — Could Disappear

Mayor de Blasio, who closed city school buildings amid rising COVID rates, said limited indoor dining could be scrapped soon. Owners say that could mean tens of thousands of jobs lost.

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The Open Newsroom, THE CITY’s collaborative local journalism project, is heading to your inbox and phone with news to use on two crucial issues heightened by the pandemic.

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Flushing Council Candidates Split on Contentious Waterfront Development

Dueling protests highlight Queens divide over 29-acre hotel and apartment megaproject set to transform a former industrial zone.

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Here Are Their Names: Remembering the New Yorkers Lost to COVID-19

We’ve created a searchable memorial of nearly 1,000 and counting. We’ve memorialized some in words and images. But we’ve got a long way to go — and we need your help.

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Parents From Long-Shuttered Public Schools Warn: Get Ready for Stress and Tears

Thousands of kids enrolled in southern Brooklyn have already been living with school shutdowns for more than a month, as students citywide now join them in all-remote learning.

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Relied Upon at Height of Pandemic, Bus Workers Will Get Hit Hard by MTA Cuts

Nearly 6,000 of 9,000 transit jobs lost would be among the workforce for city buses. Service cuts and longer waits could prove especially painful in areas of the city not connected by subway.

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Stringer Sues de Blasio in the Case of the Missing Pandemic Preparation Files

It marked the first lawsuit filed by the comptroller against City Hall. Stringer, a mayoral hopeful, wants documents key to his probe of de Blasio’s COVID crisis response.

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Hitting Home: Help Us Report on Eviction in New York City

THE CITY and Retro Report are teaming to cover the impending eviction crisis in the city. If you’re a tenant behind in rent or a landlord facing financial hardships because of the COVID-19 economic fallout, we want to hear from you.

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Capital Losses: Major Subway and Bus Projects Falling by Wayside in MTA’s Pandemic Budget Crunch

Paint jobs, structural repairs and accessibility upgrades are among the capital projects put on hold as the MTA hopes for billions from a more transit friendly Biden administration.

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NYCHA Backs Look at Fan Plan to Head Off New COVID Wave in Public Housing

After THE CITY reported that housing complexes hardest hit by the pandemic rely on aging ventilation systems, NYCHA boos agrees to Gillibrand and Velázquez’s demand for independent study.

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‘Why Are You in My Home?’ Kawaski Trawick Never Got an Answer Before Police Fatally Shot Him

Police body camera footage released Tuesday shows how, within two minutes, cops arrived, Tased and shot the 32-year-old man in his Bronx apartment last year.

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Inmates Say Warden Brings Calm to Rikers’ Young Adult Jail, But Correction Officers Balk

Violence has dropped in lockup for 18- to-21-year-old detainees since Joe Caputo took over. But critics slam a mentorship program manned by older inmates — including one accused of assaulting a correction officer.

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Most NYC Students Are Learning Online, But The City’s Virtual Teaching Strategy Remains Elusive

On a given school day, up to 800,000 students are expected to sign in for remote learning from home — but New York City has yet to put forward a detailed strategy to help schools improve online instruction.

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Their Brooklyn Building Burned Last Year. Who’s Responsible for Making it Whole Again?

Tenants are fighting to get their homes rebuilt, putting them at odds with condominium owners who say they cannot afford to restore the devastated structure across from Sunset Park.

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Helicopter Noise Complaints Sky High as Anxious, Cooped-Up New Yorkers Feel Buzzed

The 7,758 chopper noise complaints through the end of October are nearly 4,500 more than were registered via 311 in all of 2019, THE CITY’s analysis shows.

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New Gambit in NYC Self-Storage Wars: Some Owners Willing to Cut Struggling Customers Free as Demand Booms

More pandemic-slammed New Yorkers facing auctions of belongings in self-storage units are getting a new choice: make a deal or just get out. Here’s what you can do if you need help.

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FIT’s Offer of Free Temporary Housing to Laid-Off Workers Isn’t Actually Free

Soon-to-be-unemployed dorm workers facing decision deadline say they’re not sure they can afford to accept the state college’s offer meant to ease the pain of a Manhattan pandemic pushout.

NYC School Buildings Will Open Monday, But Imminent Closures Loom

The coronavirus positivity testing rate has been creeping up toward the 3% threshold set by Mayor de Blasio for stopping in-person learning. Gov. Cuomo now suggests the city’s cutoff is too strict.

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