v Manslaughter arrest for woman accused of fatally striking NYC hospital patient for violating coronavirus social distancing By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 21:11:00 +0000 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. Full Article
v Members of NYC’s running clubs run errands for needy during coronavirus pandemic By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 04 Apr 2020 17:16:56 +0000 Runners are using their legs for deliveries now. Full Article
v Cops break up Brooklyn funeral for coronavirus victim as mourners ignore social distancing By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sun, 05 Apr 2020 20:54:37 +0000 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. Full Article
v Gone too fast, too young: Brooklyn dad of 2-year-old boy dies at home from likely coronavirus despite family’s desperate efforts to save him By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 03:45:00 +0000 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. Full Article
v Family of Brooklyn artist found dead in apartment fire believe he died before the blaze By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:22:01 +0000 Wilfredo Cervantes, 52, an artist and poet from Puerto Rico, was found dead inside his second-floor apartment on Jefferson Ave. near Ralph Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Wednesday evening. Full Article
v Ex-prisoner fears coronavirus rampant at Brooklyn federal lockup, says early release likely saved his life By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 22:40:08 +0000 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. Full Article
v Outraged staff, local residents say Brooklyn nursing home kept dead coronavirus patients in room cooled only by air conditioning By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:19:51 +0000 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. Full Article
v HOMETOWN HELPERS: Brooklyn hospital X-ray technologist uses mental prep routine to 'amp up’ for hectic shifts on the coronavirus front line By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000 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. Full Article
v Coronavirus pandemic rages at NYC’s federal jails — and numbers back lawyers’ and staffers’ claims that management has a poor grip on the problem By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 08:00:00 +0000 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. Full Article
v Feds move to drop car theft charges against slain rapper Pop Smoke By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:55:18 +0000 Federal prosecutors filed the motion in Brooklyn Federal Court in the case against the “Welcome to the Party” rapper, Bashar Jackson, 20, who was shot dead in Los Angeles in a Hollywood Hills home invasion in February. Full Article
v Caring New Yorkers increasingly lend a helping hand to neighbors in need as war against coronavirus gets local By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 03:00:00 +0000 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. Full Article
v New Jersey mom-to-be gets coronavirus, delivers baby daughter in a coma, lives to tell the tale: ‘I’m extremely grateful that my baby and I are alive’ By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 20:05:58 +0000 “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. Full Article
v SEE IT: Robbers punch 83-year-old man to ground, hold gun to his head in Brooklyn elevator By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:37:00 +0000 An 83-year-old man was punched and had a gun put to his head by two masked men in Brooklyn, according to video released by police. Full Article
v Beloved Brooklyn activist/rapper battles coronavirus in month-long fight for life as friends and family send prayers By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:50:03 +0000 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. Full Article
v Pair of armed NYC muggers in medical masks use coronavirus pandemic to launch violent crime spree: cops By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:03:12 +0000 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. Full Article
v Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez says coronavirus crisis has shifted his focus to releasing inmates, rather than locking them up By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000 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. Full Article
v Resilient New Yorkers share messages of hope and support across the city as the war against coronavirus stretches on By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 02:00:00 +0000 New Yorkers leave messages of hope through the coronavirus pandemic. Full Article
v HOMETOWN HELPERS: Renowned Brooklyn clothier founded by Holocaust survivor now making masks to keep NYers safe from coronavirus By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 08:00:00 +0000 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. Full Article
v SEE IT: Deranged man on rampage stabs two men in Brooklyn, leaving both in critical condition By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:28:22 +0000 The mayhem began when the assailant went berzerk inside an apartment building on Dorchester Road and East 21 St. in Flatbush about 10:50 p.m. Saturday, punching and kicking two men before stabbing one multiple times, police said. Full Article
v DEA investigator busted in sting for trying to arrange sex with 14-year-old: officials By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 01:11:27 +0000 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. Full Article
v NYC educators push for teacher diversity in city schools By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 22:10:30 +0000 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. Full Article
v Drivers, attendants of NYC’s biggest school bus contractor vote to authorize strike amid contract impasse By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 22:43:27 +0000 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. Full Article
v NYC schools chancellor slams critics over abrupt ending to Queens school town hall, calling it a ‘set up’ By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 18:31:06 +0000 Critics have slammed the chancellor for making an early exit from a town hall in Bayside last week after two furious parents stood up mid-meeting to demand answers from the schools chief about alleged assaults their middle school children suffered at M.S. 158 Full Article
v Ballooning state aid for private schools subsidized teacher salaries at some of NYC’s most expensive private schools By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 04:00:55 +0000 A fast-growing New York state program that funds math and science teacher salaries at private schools paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars to some of the city’s priciest private schools that can charge over $50,000 a year for tuition, the Daily News has learned. Full Article
v NYC parents of special needs students file class action suit over special education court delays By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 23:08:57 +0000 The special education courts are designed to protect the legal rights of those children, but the city’s system is so overburdened that vulnerable students wait months or years for help getting critical support, according to the legal complaint. Full Article
v NYC Council bill seeks to make free summer camp available to all city students By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:10:50 +0000 Two city Council member proposed universal summer camp. Full Article
v New Jersey teacher under investigation after inappropriate slavery lesson By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 15:19:10 +0000 Lawrence Cuneo, an eighth-grade social studies teacher in the coastal town of Toms River, is under investigation by school officials. Full Article
v U.S. Education Dept. investigates foreign donations to Havard, Yale By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 22:44:56 +0000 The probe is part of a broader effort to monitor the influx of donations from other countries to American universities, which also includes investigations at Georgetown and Texas A&M. U.S. colleges are required under federal law to report foreign donations of $250,000 are more. Full Article
v Holocaust studies center at Yeshiva University gets new leader By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 09:00:17 +0000 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. Full Article
v Progressive South Bronx charter school facing closure fights for survival By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 09:00:37 +0000 Teachers, parents, and supporters of Heketi Community Charter School in Mott Haven are fighting back, arguing that the school met its goals for academic growth. Full Article
v Agencies urge Gov. Cuomo to boost funding for special education preschool amid shortage By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:21:14 +0000 Advocates predict up to 2,000 city youngsters with disabilities may be unable to find an appropriate preschool this spring because of financial constraints that make it harder to hire and maintain teachers for special needs programs. Full Article
v NYC Education Dept. announces six-month delay on Queens school diversity plan after parent pushback By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 23:40:12 +0000 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. Full Article
v Second NYC teen speaks out on 30-hour detention as city officials promise to investigate By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:21:04 +0000 Flushing High School junior Arialis Guzman said she “just didn’t get treated right" while police held her and a friend for more than a day in the aftermath of an after school altercation. The teens spent the night of Wednesday, Feb. 12 and much of the next day, Feb. 13, handcuffed to a bench in a Queens police precinct. Full Article
v NYC Education Dept. employees added to city mental health services plan By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:42:56 +0000 Schools workers and their families will be eligible for the Employee Assistance Program, an initiative that helps city workers, at no cost, identify mental health issues, find counseling, and get specialized support for issues like addiction. Full Article
v NYC starts voter registration push for 16- and 17-year-olds By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 22:41:30 +0000 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. Full Article
v Parents, school officials grapple with school attendance policy amid coronavirus fears By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 23:39:32 +0000 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. Full Article
v NYC schoolteacher self-quarantined with coronavirus symptoms, as city examines virus response By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:54:42 +0000 The teacher recently traveled to Italy and came back to class before noticing the symptoms, according to a source familiar with the situation. Full Article
v Three NYC teachers tested for coronavirus after returning from Italy By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 20:10:44 +0000 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 Full Article
v NYC teacher arrested for collecting $29,000 from fraudulent medical leave By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:25:29 +0000 Jeffrey Gooding collected a city salary for five months during a medical leave — while simultaneously working for a Harlem charter school, according to investigators. Full Article
v Advocates, public health experts urge NYC officials to begin ‘social distancing’ measures in response to coronavirus By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 22:32:32 +0000 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. Full Article
v CUNY faces mounting calls for closure over coronavirus concerns By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 22:39:07 +0000 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. Full Article
v NYC schools move parent-teacher conferences to phone, videoconference By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 23:38:29 +0000 School officials tweeted the meetings can take place by phone or videochat, but no longer in-person. If parents can’t reach their kids’ teachers during their scheduled conference times, schools will try to accommodate them later this month, officials said. Full Article
v Possible coronavirus closure prompts Queens charter school to buy bulk food for students By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:50:31 +0000 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. Full Article
v CUNY, SUNY systems to cancel in-person classes for remainder of semester due to coronavirus By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 20:40:16 +0000 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. Full Article
v Catholic elementary schools in NYC and the surrounding counties to close for a week amid coronavirus concerns By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:54:26 +0000 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. Full Article
v NYC schools shut down after coronavirus scare By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 19:08:00 +0000 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. Full Article
v NYC Council member proposes a ‘summer school’ approach to coronavirus school closures By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 21:56:03 +0000 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.” Full Article
v Two Staten Island public schools close after student tests positive for coronavirus By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:41:24 +0000 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. Full Article
v Success Academy shuts down all NYC charter schools amid coronavirus spread By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 14:41:58 +0000 Success Academy Charter Schools, which teaches 18,000 students across 45 schools in the city, will move to online learning starting Mar. 19, though officials didn’t specify how long the shutdown will last. Full Article
v NYC teachers, principals unions call on city to shut down schools for coronavirus By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:40:56 +0000 UFT head Michael Mulgrew pointed out that many city private and charter schools have already shut their doors plus multiple other states. Full Article