The judge, whose name was not released, was last in the courthouse on Mar. 12, officials said.

A transgender woman awaiting trial on charges that she swindled elderly women out of their savings was raped repeatedly in jail after she was housed against her will with rowdy male inmates, according to a new lawsuit.

Friends played touch football and shared sweaty exercise equipment while others kept their distance from others

“It’s about the power of music and bringing music to people to get through very difficult times. I think we all really need to do that and really step up for each other," said Dr. Kari Groff.

While an increasing number of criminal suspects are being arraigned by video to prevent the spread of coronavirus, defendants’ families often sit on crowded courthouse benches waiting for their relatives’ arraignments.

Patient Jessica Ellision recalled how she broke down and sobbed Monday when she finally received her medication after a three-hour wait — much of it in the crowded hallway where she feared the other patients might be infected. “It was so intense and so stressful, and you feel like you worked so hard not to be sick, but this is it now — this is how it happens,” said Ellison, 39, of the Bronx.

Rona Phillips, the principal of KAPPA V High School in Brownsville, is in intensive care with pneumonia, officials said. “Our thoughts are with Principal Phillips and her family for a speedy recovery, and we’ll support the school community in every way we can,” said Education Department spokeswoman Miranda Barbot.

City officials called the street closings planned starting Friday are an “initial pilot,” and that more sites may be added to the program in the coming days. De Blasio said on Tuesday he’d like to open “up to two streets per borough.”

The beloved 49-year-old priest, born in Mexico City, passed away Friday evening at the Wyckoff Medical Center in Brooklyn, the diocese said. Father Jorge, as he was known to worshippers, served as the diocesan coordinator of the ministry for Mexican-Americans among his other duties.

Disturbing videos posted online paint a grim picture on how hospitals seem to be struggling to deal with bodies as they battle against the wave of coronavirus patients.

A Brooklyn federal magistrate denied Genaro Garcia Luna release from prison due to coronavirus, saying he was a flight risk.

Hospital police initially issued Lundy a disorderly conduct summons after the attack and released her. On Thursday NYPD cops arrested her for manslaughter and assault.

Runners are using their legs for deliveries now.

Suspect Donte West, 28, broke into a side door of the shoe store on Pitkin Ave. near Bristol St. in Brownsville about 8:45 a.m. Saturday and loaded up a Chevy Trailblazer with more than three dozen pairs of sneakers and nearly 40 baseball caps as cops arrived, police said.

The funeral was held for Rav Yosef Kalish, 63, an Amshinover rebbe who was hospitalized with COVID-19 last week and died Sunday morning, The Associated Press reported.

The last thing Jorge Cruz ever did was ask for a cup of hot tea. By the time it was cool enough for a sip, he was dead -- apparently from coronavirus.

Inmates were coughing and sneezing, and guards wore no personal protective equipment, said Hassan Chunn, 46, who fears the disease is spreading through the Metropolitan Detention Center.

Outraged community leaders joined staffers Tuesday outside the Linden Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, where demonstrators complained as many as 10 bodies were stored in an unrefrigerated fourth floor dementia unit where the dead reside among the living — and ailing residents are reportedly free to wander.

Gina Torres, radiologic technologist at Wyckoff Heights Hospital in Brooklyn, knows the amount of stress waiting inside as coronavirus patients pour in day after day.

Staff at New York City’s two federal jails, defense attorneys and inmates interviewed by the Daily News say the official numbers of COVID-19 cases obscure the magnitude of the crisis behind bars.

While the COVID-19 pandemic keeps New Yorkers separated by face masks and social distancing and self-quarantine, a growing number of city residents are connecting through local mutual aid groups now sprouting across the shuttered boroughs.

“I’m still going through the motions. The wounds are still really fresh,” said Johana Rocio Mendoza Chancay. “But I’m extremely grateful that my baby and I are alive,” she said, breaking down in tears.

Roberto Correa, born and raised in Brooklyn, looms in his Sunset Park neighborhood as a prominent and popular figure: He owns The Booth NYC, a local clothing store/recording studio, and is a well-known local activist.

The heartless bandits with hidden faces are wanted for a violent robbery spree across Brooklyn and the Bronx over the past five weeks that includes beating an 83-year-old man, pistol-whipping a woman and shooting a bread deliveryman who survived a bullet to the pancreas.

The fourth-year DA told the Daily News in an interview that his focus has shifted dramatically during the crisis, as trials and grand juries have been put on hold across the state.

New Yorkers leave messages of hope through the coronavirus pandemic.

Martin Greenfield Clothiers, creator of Joaquin Phoenix’s “Joker” suit and tailor to the well-dressed from President Obama to Mayor Bloomberg, is taking on coronavirus. The venerable custom suit maker teamed with its union workers to start producing protective face masks, with local community groups first on their list of beneficiaries.

Frederick Scheinin, 29, of Sunnyside, Queens, allegedly chatted for months with a federal agent posing as a minor, and now faces charges in Manhattan federal court of attempting to entice a minor and attempting to produce child pornography.

Hall became a middle school science teacher in the Bronx in part so his students would never have that same experience. But for years, he was the only black male teacher on staff — which came with challenges of its own.

Former principal Minerva Zanca of Pan American High School in Queens allegedly targeted black staffers from 2012-13, calling one a “gorilla” and “nappy-haired," according to a lawsuit filed in 2016 by the federal Justice Department.

Two thousand workers from the Amalgamated Transit Union’s Local 1181 voted overwhelmingly to authorize the strike against their employer, which operates about 900 of the city’s more than 8,000 school bus routes.

The hefty payout comes after the federal Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the city Education Department in 2016 for allowing a “pattern and practice of discrimination” to flourish at Pan American High School during the 2012-13 school year.

Shay Pilnik, the new president of the Yeshiva center and himself the grandson of Holocaust survivors, said the recent spate of anti-semitic attacks in New York shows the urgency of coordinated, deep study of the Holocaust.

New York City currently has fewer than 70 special education judges — called impartial hearing officers — to handle the thousands of complaints that special education students lodge every year against the city school system, resulting in more than 10,000 still-open cases.

The plaintiff, a former high school cheerleader identified only by the pseudonym “Mary Coe,” was in her first year at the school when defendant William Martire allegedly initially forced her to perform oral sex on him in the early 1980s, according to a horrifying 18-page Brooklyn Supreme Court filing.

Officials explained Wednesday that pushing the deadline from June to December for drafting a plan to diversify school enrollment in Queens’s District 28, which stretches from Forest Hills to Jamaica, would allow more people to give their input.

City Council Member Debi Rose (D - Staten Island) said city students shouldn’t feel obligated to march with their schools or bands in the parade while event organizers refuse to let the Staten Island Pride Center march.

A new state law allows teens to register as soon as they turn 16, and city officials are holding voter registration drives at city high schools and colleges this week to spread the word.

Under the policy, middle and high schools may consider attendance records when making admissions decisions — and fourth- and seventh-grade attendance records can be a factor in getting into the city’s most selective public schools.

The teacher recently traveled to Italy and came back to class before noticing the symptoms, according to a source familiar with the situation.

One of the educators, who works at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, tested negative despite showing symptoms, and the other two are awaiting test results, the mayor said

Nearly 20 groups representing New York City foster kids pleaded with officials to finally guarantee school buses to students in foster care so they no longer have to switch schools because they can’t get to class.

In a letter, the group noted that past pandemics show large-scale social restrictions that keep people physically separated can make the most difference if done before the illness becomes widespread.

The sprawling CUNY system, which serves over 250,000 students — many of whom are low-income — across 25 campuses, remained open Tuesday, and has no confirmed cases of the virus among students or faculty.

VOICE Charter School in Long Island City — where 80% of students are low-income — is distributing bags full of pasta, rice and beans, granola bars and other non-perishables to hundreds of families Wednesday afternoon in case the school is eventually forced to close and kids miss out on school meals.

The college systems, which enroll a combined 700,000 students across the state, will move to a “distance learning model,” Cuomo said at a coronavirus-related press conference Wednesday.

The closure applies to Catholic elementary schools in Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx, the area covered by the New York Archdiocese. It will last from March 16 through March 20, “with the possibility of a lengthier closure,” according to diocese officials.

The Laboratory School of Finance and Technology and South Bronx Preparatory: A College Board School, two co-located high schools in the South Bronx, will be closed for a day after a student tested positive for the coronavirus.

Closing most public schools and using the rest to serve at-risk students and families who rely on them to meet basic health needs would be a good way for the Education Department to handle the coronavirus crisis, the chair of the city council’s Education Committee said Thursday. City Council Member Mark Treyger suggested that adopting a “summer school” approach "could work in terms of a limited system shutdown while servicing the most vulnerable.”

New Dorp High School and the Richard H. Hungerford School were being shut down out of “an abundance of caution,” the DOE said on Twitter early Friday.