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Andrew Yang, a former presidential candidate and current New York City mayoral candidate, has tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus and is experiencing mild symptoms, he confirmed on Tuesday.

During a Wednesday appearance on “MSNBC Live,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) shared that New York City will be “reopening” in the “coming weeks.” New York City has been shut down for months with many restrictions in place in an effort to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.

Police in New York City are looking for dozens of suspects linked to a violent attack on a 26-year-old who was beaten, had his clothes removed, and was cut with a sharp object.

The rates of people testing positive for the coronavirus in some areas of New York City have reached ten percent or more, according to data provided by the city Friday.

Four muggers allegedly attacked a New York City man and stole his wallet, according to footage released by the NYPD.

A Staten Island, New York, hiker found human remains while walking in Mariners Marsh Park, police said.

A naked man allegedly shoved another person off a Harlem subway platform Saturday then was electrocuted to death when he jumped down on the third rail.

Donald G. Tober, who became famous for putting Sweet’N Low packets on millions of tables, died Friday by suicide.

A woman was arrested after she allegedly stole a mail truck in New York City and slammed it into at least ten cars Friday night.

Emergency crews pulled an MTA bus back from an overpass in the Bronx on Friday after it careened off the roadway Thursday night.

Several muggers allegedly punched a victim so hard that they fractured his jaw in an attack that took place in broad daylight in New York City.

One person died, and four others were found injured after a “suspicious” incident in New York City Thursday morning, authorities said.

Wednesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced his city is “severing all contracts with the Trump Organization” in the wake of the “insurrection” at the U.S Capitol last week by a group of the president’s supporters.

A janitor at a New York City hospital tried to initiate a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl he met online, telling her he anticipated taking her virginity, according to prosecutors.

New York City will review whether it can legally end its contracts with the Trump Organization, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said Tuesday.

A woman was taken into custody this week for allegedly spraypainting graffiti on St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on New Year’s Day.

A man suspected of randomly assaulting multiple women at a New York City subway station has been arrested Tuesday and charged with multiple hate crimes, authorities said.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) on Tuesday called for a travel ban from the United Kingdom over a variant strain of the Chinese coronavirus — one that is reportedly more transmissible — referring to it as the “new foe.”

A 79-year-old man was killed, with a four-year-old girl and one other person injured, in a New York City knife attack reportedly carried out by a family member, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD).

A fifth victim has reported being randomly assaulted at a New York City subway station, police announced Sunday.

A New York City bus driver said a Good Samaritan rescued her after she was attacked while working on New Year’s Day.

A 34-year-old New York City woman was discovered dead in a Staten Island apartment’s garbage chute, police said.

New York City, once the U.S. epicenter of the Chinese coronavirus, plans to vaccinate one million people in January, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio, who made the announcement on Thursday.

Partiers hit the streets of Wuhan, China — the once-epicenter of the Chinese coronavirus, which brought the world to a virtual standstill in 2020 — to ring in the new year as the streets of Times Square remained nearly empty.

Three people were shot, one fatally, in a January 1, 2021, New York City shooting which may be confirmed as the first homicide of the year.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio danced with his wife in Times Square before midnight on New Year’s Eve while keeping the rest of New York out of the famed plaza for the first time history as he enforced coronavirus restrictions.

A New York City man severed his penis Wednesday and threw it in his Staten Island apartment’s toilet, according to a report.

Since late November, a violently aggressive squirrel has left some Queens residents afraid to leave their homes.

A group of young bicyclists attacked a BMW SUV in plain sight in New York City, terrorizing a couple inside the vehicle, according to a video.

The huge ball made of Waterford crystal that drops at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve will still fall toward Times Square, but for the first time since 1907, no one will be there in person to witness it because of the coronavirus restrictions in New York City.

Applications for New York City gun permits have surged to 9,000 applicants, but the New York Post reports that NYPD approved “fewer than 1,100.”

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday that travellers from the United Kingdom will face home visits from police officers to enforce a quarantine order against Britons. The left-wing Mayor said that the quarantine was in response

Tech entrepreneur and failed Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang filed paperwork to run for mayor of New York City, according to the city’s Campaign Finance Board. 

Catholic League president Bill Donohue has noted history’s great irony that “no segment of society punishes the poor more than those who champion their cause.”

Faculty members of the exclusive Dalton School in New York City have issued an eight-page anti-racism manifesto, the demands of which include sweeping changes in personnel, academic curriculum, and how black students are to be treated differently in discipline matters and assessing academic performance.

The shooter at a New York City, New York, Christmas concert was an immigrant to the United States from the Dominican Republic who avoided deportation despite an extensive criminal record, officials confirm.