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Members of NYC’s running clubs run errands for needy during coronavirus pandemic

Runners are using their legs for deliveries now.




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Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams calls for express supermarket lanes for first responders, with Foodtown already onboard

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams called Saturday for all New York supermarkets to offer express lane treatment for those heroic New Yorkers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.




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Cops bust thief trying to steal dozens of shoes and baseball caps from closed Brooklyn Foot Locker

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.




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Four men wounded in Brooklyn shooting

A 39-year-old man was shot in the stomach on Rockaway Parkway near Winthrop St. in Brownsville around 3:20 a.m., according to authorities. Three other men, in their 30s and 40s, were shot in the legs.




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Cops break up Brooklyn funeral for coronavirus victim as mourners ignore social distancing

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.




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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

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.




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SEE IT: Crook wears N95 face mask to rob deli of cash and 36 Red Bulls

A pair of crooks smashed their way into a grocery store in Brooklyn and stole the deli’s cash register along with three dozen Red Bulls, cops said.




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Family of Brooklyn artist found dead in apartment fire believe he died before the blaze

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.




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Ex-prisoner fears coronavirus rampant at Brooklyn federal lockup, says early release likely saved his life

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.




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SEE IT: Burglar in surgical mask robs Brooklyn church twice in 5 days

The crook first targeted Grace Baptist Church on New Jersey Ave. near Liberty Ave. in East New York around 8 p.m. March 31, cops said. He forced open a side door and made off with a wad of cash.




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Outraged staff, local residents say Brooklyn nursing home kept dead coronavirus patients in room cooled only by air conditioning

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.




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HOMETOWN HELPERS: Brooklyn hospital X-ray technologist uses mental prep routine to 'amp up’ for hectic shifts on the coronavirus front line

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.




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Coronavirus pandemic rages at NYC’s federal jails — and numbers back lawyers’ and staffers’ claims that management has a poor grip on the problem

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.




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Feds move to drop car theft charges against slain rapper Pop Smoke

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.




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Caring New Yorkers increasingly lend a helping hand to neighbors in need as war against coronavirus gets local

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.




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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’

“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.




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SEE IT: Robbers punch 83-year-old man to ground, hold gun to his head in Brooklyn elevator

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.




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Beloved Brooklyn activist/rapper battles coronavirus in month-long fight for life as friends and family send prayers

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.




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Pair of armed NYC muggers in medical masks use coronavirus pandemic to launch violent crime spree: cops

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.




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‘It’s as bad as you think’: Public defense attorney reports seeing inmates in Brooklyn federal jail ‘begging’ for medical care, guards without protection

When Deirdre Von Dornum and the others arrived at the Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal Bureau of Prisons staffer wearing no gloves or mask greeted them in the lobby, according to the email.




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Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez says coronavirus crisis has shifted his focus to releasing inmates, rather than locking them up

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.




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Resilient New Yorkers share messages of hope and support across the city as the war against coronavirus stretches on

New Yorkers leave messages of hope through the coronavirus pandemic.




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HOMETOWN HELPERS: Renowned Brooklyn clothier founded by Holocaust survivor now making masks to keep NYers safe from coronavirus

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.




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SEE IT: Deranged man on rampage stabs two men in Brooklyn, leaving both in critical condition

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.




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She paid $15,000 for mom’s final arrangements — and now worries Brooklyn funeral home stored remains on unrefrigerated U-Haul truck

NYC Mayor de Blasio denounced storing bodies in unrefrigerated and unmanned U-Haul trucks outside of Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home on Utica Ave. and Ave. M in Flatlands




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Teen arrested outside Hasidic funeral in Brooklyn as cops seek to enforce social distancing

The scene on 43rd St. between 13th Ave. and 14th Ave. unfolded at about 4 p.m. Thursday as mourners flouted social distancing norms to attend what was supposed to be a private funeral at the home of Rabbi Cheskel Wagshel, 95, said a family friend.




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SEE IT: NYPD roughly arrests men defying social distancing in Brooklyn

Antonio Rivera, accused of getting high in East New York amidst a group of people ignoring the city’s pandemic policies, was sent tumbling to the street when he came at one of the NYPD cops making arrests. The video shows police placing Rivera in handcuffs as he was lying on the ground behind their car.




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Edith Wharton

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.




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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. Discuss




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DEA investigator busted in sting for trying to arrange sex with 14-year-old: officials

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.




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New report finds work-based learning gap in city schools

The sophomore at H.E.R.O. High School in the Bronx, who dreams of being a pediatrician, spends her Saturdays learning from medical professionals and has been working closely with her school’s internships coordinator since the beginning of the school year to land a paid summer job working with kids.




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NYC educators push for teacher diversity in city schools

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.




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Teacher pushes for resolution in long-standing lawsuit on school racism

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.




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Drivers, attendants of NYC’s biggest school bus contractor vote to authorize strike amid contract impasse

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.




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Teachers unions protest state education funding shortfalls at NYC schools

For years, state officials have declined to fully fund the Foundation Aid Formula designed to dole out money to New York school districts based on need.




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NYC schools chancellor slams critics over abrupt ending to Queens school town hall, calling it a ‘set up’

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




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16-year-old student shot in leg outside Queens high school

The teen was shot three blocks from the high school in Queens Village at 2:45 Tuesday afternoon, just after school let out, cops said. The 911 caller described a group of students fighting before the shooting, according to police.




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Program that flooded NYC schools with extra resources showing results: study

The “community schools” program, which infuses schools with mental health counselors, free vision and dental care, and classes for parents, boosted attendance and on-time graduation rates in participating schools from 2015-2018, according to the report from the research group RAND Corporation.




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NYC Education Dept. due for shortage of more than 1,000 seats for preschoolers with disabilities: analysis

Advocates have long protested the lack of special education pre-K classes for 3- and 4-year-olds, which is federally mandated, even as the city invests millions in universal pre-K.




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NYC pays out more than $1 million in settlements to employees who accused Queens high school principal of racism

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.




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NYC schools Chancellor apologizes to Queens parents, promises meeting

Carranza made an early exit from a community meeting in Bayside last week after two parents demanded answers about violent incidents at Marie Curie Middle School. “I in no way want to show disrespect to any parent that wants to be heard, and I apologize because as a parent myself, I can only imagine the pain parents are feeling when their children have been hurt,” he said.




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Parents fight to keep key autism therapy when kids enter NYC schools

Applied Behavior Analysis is administered frequently to 0-3-year-olds in the state’s Early Intervention system.




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CUNY names first Asian-American college president to lead Baruch College

Wu, a former Vice President at George Mason University in Virginia, was voted in unanimously, 17-0, by the city university system’s Board of Trustees Monday night and will take office on July 1.




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Ballooning state aid for private schools subsidized teacher salaries at some of NYC’s most expensive private schools

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.




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NYC parents of special needs students file class action suit over special education court delays

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.




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NYC Council bill seeks to make free summer camp available to all city students

Two city Council member proposed universal summer camp.




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Fewer than 8,000 NYC kids in foster care, an all-time low: officials

The results from the city’s annual foster care census showed a precipitous decline from the 1990s, when there were 50,000 kids in foster care, and a continued improvement from 2010, when there were 17,000.




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New Jersey teacher under investigation after inappropriate slavery lesson

Lawrence Cuneo, an eighth-grade social studies teacher in the coastal town of Toms River, is under investigation by school officials.




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NYC principals union reaches contract agreement

The Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, which represents principals and assistant principals, won a 7.5% raise over four years, paid parental leave, and a commitment to hire more assistant principals, officials said Thursday.




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U.S. Education Dept. investigates foreign donations to Havard, Yale

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.