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If grandma or grandpa are a bit resistant about getting the coronavirus vaccine, maybe it’s time to introduce them to Rampage. more

By MICHAEL HINMAN | 12/11/21

Mayor Bill de Blasio will require all private sector employees in the city to have at least one vaccination dose by the time they return from the holidays on Dec. 27.

de Blasio will require vaccinations in private job sector

Mayor Bill de Blasio is certainly leaving his mark as he packs up Gracie Mansion. Beginning just after Christmas, anyone who wants to collect a paycheck in New York City will have to be vaccinated. more

By MICHAEL HINMAN | 12/6/21

Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez rallied with several of his City Hall colleagues and advocates to pass his ‘Our City, Our Vote’ bill. The legislation would give voting rights to the roughly 800,000 non-citizens living in New York City.

Council tries giving voting rights to voiceless

There was a time when Mino Lora didn’t have the right to vote. It was 20 years ago, and she had just arrived from the Dominican Republic. Lora wasn’t alone, of course. The right to vote is only a right for those who are citizens of this country. more

By ETHAN STARK-MILLER | 12/6/21

Arnie Adler swapped one of his sourdough breads with his neighbor for her own homemade treat just in time for Thanksgiving. While Adler focused on bartering when he first started baking earlier this year, he’s now selling many more loaves than he’s trading.

Arnie Adler's fresh bread baking continues to rise

In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, Arnie Adler had his hands full — with flour, dough and yeast that is. Soon after returning from a trip to California, the photographer-turned-baker scrambled to fill several orders for his freshly baked sourdough bread ahead of turkey day. more

By ETHAN STARK-MILLER | 12/6/21

Kids scramble up a climbing wall as part of Mosholu Montefiore Community Center’s after-school program. Groups like this are limited — especially at locations away from MMCC’s main Dekalb Avenue center — because of staffing shortages, creating a waitlist of more than 400 kids.

Staff shortages lead to long waitlists for kids

Keshia Collins Brown relied on her two college-age daughters to take care of her 8-year-old while she worked on-site at a Midtown bank during the coronavirus pandemic. But as fall neared, Collins Brown’s older children were expected back on campus, leaving her youngest without care. But there was one other alternative she could consider. more

By TRINA MANNINO | 12/6/21

Making COVID history requires us to do our part

It was a morning I woke up with a very stuffy head and a low-grade fever that got progressively worse throughout the day. more

By MICHAEL HINMAN | 12/6/21

They might work in New York City, but live elsewhere. Normally that just means a longer commute — but during the coronavirus pandemic, their home — even in another state — suddenly became their offices. Yet, these employees were still obligated to pay New York state’s income tax, even if they hadn’t stepped inside the state for more than a year.

Out-of-town workers still on hook for taxes

The pandemic brought about a lot changes, including far more people working from home. Except those homes aren’t necessarily inside New York state. more

By JOSEPH DE LA CRUZ | 11/28/21

Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed an executive order allowing hospitals to deny non-essential services if they become overwhelmed by coronavirus patients. It comes on the heels of Africa identifying a new variant that some believe could replace the current delta variant that makes up nearly all of New York's current cases.

Hochul on omicron variant: 'It's coming'

New York City has, by far, the lowest coronavirus infection rates in the state. But even that achievement could soon be challenged by the omicron variant — first seen earlier this month in Botswana, and quickly spreading through Africa — and Gov. Kathy Hochul says she wants to make sure New York is ready. more

By MICHAEL HINMAN | 11/27/21

Booster shots of the coronavirus vaccine is now available for anyone in the city 18 and older. That means it’s all hands on deck for family-owned shops like Riverdale Specialty Pharmacy on Johnson Avenue as the take daily phone and walk-in appointments for the Moderna booster shot.

Booster shots arrive for (mostly) all

It’s always been a family affair, but the coronavirus pandemic has taken Stella Borukhova’s pharmacy on an especially rocky “rollercoaster” of a ride. more

By SARAH BELLE LIN | 11/27/21

Republican gubernatorial candidate and former Westchester County executive Rob Astorino rallied against Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz’s child vaccine mandate outside the lawmaker’s Kingsbridge Avenue office earlier this month. Cameras caught two protesters displaying what has been described as anti-Semitic imagery during the rally — a swastika emblazoned on a sign, and a man wearing a gold Star of David patch.

Anti-vaxxers target Dinowitz with swastika

It wasn’t that long ago this corner of the Bronx was shaken when a vandal broke windows of four local synagogues and was ultimately charged with a series of hate crimes. more

By ETHAN STARK-MILLER | 11/26/21

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