City jail health officials have begun vaccinating medical staff against COVID-19 — and hope to soon start inoculating correction officers and inmates, according to multiple sources. The de Blasio administration recently got permission from the state to “offer the COVID-19 vaccine to our highest risk patients,” Dr. Patsy Yang, senior vice president for Correctional Health […]
Mark Levine
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As Trenches Fill, Plans for Hart Island COVID-19 Memorial Look to Past and Future
Taking cues from the 9/11 Museum at Ground Zero, a tribute to victims of coronavirus, AIDS and even the Spanish Flu could turn the island off The Bronx into a publicly accessible gathering place in the years to come.
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Eviction Drop Fuels Push to Expand Free Housing Help for Low-Income NYC Tenants
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Evictions dropped by nearly 20% last year in neighborhoods where low-income tenants received free, city-funded legal services, a new analysis found. The reduction came in 20 zip codes targeted by the city’s 2017 Right […]
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Cop-Monitored Security Cameras Promised for Morningside Park
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Security cameras that would be monitored by police in real time around the clock could be coming to Morningside Park following last month’s killing of a college student there. Councilmember Mark Levine (D-Manhattan) promised […]