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The New York Daily News reports: New York City hit yet another grim COVID-19 milestone on the last day of 2021, recording a single-day record of nearly 50,000 new cases on Dec. 31, according to state data released Saturday afternoon. City residents reported 49,724 positive tests Friday, making up the lion’s share of the state’s record-breaking case total of over …

The New York Times reports: Eric Leroy Adams was sworn in as the 110th mayor of New York City early Saturday in a festive but pared-down Times Square ceremony, a signal of the formidable task before him as he begins his term while coronavirus cases are surging anew. Mr. Adams, 61, the son of a house cleaner who was a …

Gothamist reports: New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams will keep a COVID-19 vaccine mandate in place for private-sector employers, embracing a policy previously established by outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio. Adams unveiled his plan to battle the winter surge at a news conference Thursday at Brooklyn Borough Hall, making the vaccine mandate a key part of his strategy, which he …

NBC New York reports: Mayor Bill de Blasio says New York City will ring in 2022 in Times Square as planned despite record numbers of COVID-19 infections in the city and around the nation. De Blasio said on NBC’s “Today” show on Thursday that he wants to show the world that the city is “fighting our way through this.” After …

The New York Daily News reports: The MTA suspended three New York City subway lines without warning Thursday morning as it faces massive staffing shortfalls from a surge in COVID-19 cases. The agency pulled the brakes on all B, Z, and W trains just before the start of rush hour. Meanwhile, J, D and No. 5 trains will make local …

The New York Daily News reports: Eric Adams, who earlier this month scrapped plans for an indoor Jan. 1 inauguration ceremony over concerns about the omicron variant of COVID-19, said Wednesday that he set his mind on the Times Square bash because it’s a safer but equally as bombastic alternative for getting sworn in. “Times Square has long been synonymous …

New York City’s ABC News affiliate reports: New York State reported a “striking increase” in new hospital admissions for children as pediatric COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the U.S. continue to rise week after week. The New York State Department of Health said the recent fourfold increase in admissions that began the week of December 5 is concentrated in New …

Yet another pointless demonstration in NYC last night: The Burger King at Fulton and Adams Streets in Brooklyn, near Borough Hall, in Downtown Brooklyn was the site of an anti-mandate rally Monday, whereupon protesters gathered to protest the city’s vaccine mandate on Monday evening. After protests outside Brooklyn’s Borough Hall, the current office of Mayor-Elect Eric Adams, protestors were arrested …

Gothamist reports: New York Governor Kathy Hochul said the state is expecting to receive millions of additional COVID-19 tests by the end of this week, and will make most of them available to school districts, including one million kits—each with two tests—for New York City’s schools. “They can be in hand for the school districts to be able to deploy …

Bloomberg News reports: Apple Inc. has closed its major New York City retail stores — including its Fifth Avenue, SoHo, Grand Central and World Trade Center locations — to shoppers because of rising Covid-19 cases. The closures include 16 stores across New York, with Upper West Side, West 14th Street, Staten Island and Bronx locations all affected. The temporary move …

The Associated Press reports: New York City’s sweeping mandate requiring nearly all private-sector businesses to ban unvaccinated employees from the workplace has taken effect amid a spike in coronavirus infections. Workers at roughly 184,000 businesses were required to show proof they have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by Monday. Businesses that don’t comply could face fines …

The Insider reports: Subway services across New York City are set to run less frequently from Monday to Thursday as COVID-19 cases swell. The New York City Transit Authority, a division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said on Sunday that subways would be less frequent and passengers may have to wait longer for their train. It advised people to check …

The Daily Mail reports: A group of anti-vaxxers protested outside Trump Grill in New York City on Thursday after they were denied entrance to the restaurant. A police officer was recorded trying to reason with the handful of protesters, who appeared to be in the restaurant’s lobby. “Prove to us. that we are a threat. Yeah, so the burden of …

This story makes its 18th annual appearance on JMG… Grand Central Terminal functions as the mechanical heart of midtown New York City, pumping out several thousand workers and tourists on one beat, then sucking in several thousand more on the next. The rhythms of the terminal are fascinating. Beat. Four thousand, inbound from New Haven. Beat. Three thousand, outbound to …

Gothamist reports: Thousands of New Yorkers lined up at sites in each borough hoping to score one of the coveted at-home COVID-19 test kits the city distributed ahead of the holidays. Five pop-up locations opened Thursday and another five are scheduled to open Friday morning. Vince Mola cackled with happiness after receiving a free kit. “It’s glee, it’s relief and …

The New York Daily News reports: The ball drop must go on. The New Year’s Eve bash in Times Square will take place as scheduled — but attendees must wear face masks and maintain social distancing in addition to being fully vaccinated as COVID-19 continues to batter the city, Mayor de Blasio announced Thursday. Some 58,000 revelers are usually allowed …

The New York Daily News reports: Mayor-elect Eric Adams announced Tuesday that he’s canceling his Jan. 1 inauguration event as the omicron variant of coronavirus continues to drive up infections and hospitalizations in the city. Adams — who was supposed to be sworn in at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn alongside incoming Comptroller Brad Lander and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams …

Politico reports: Outgoing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is urging the Biden administration to send help as the Covid-19 Omicron variant rises dramatically in the city’s five boroughs. The variant’s lightning-fast spread in the city forced the cancellation of Radio City Music Hall’s annual “Christmas Spectacular” over the weekend and led Saturday Night Live to broadcast without a …

The Wall Street Journal reports: CNN is closing its offices to nonessential employees, network President Jeff Zucker told employees in a memo Saturday, as Covid-19 cases rise at the network and nationwide. Employees who don’t need to be in the office to produce shows or provide other essential functions for the network’s broadcast operations will be asked to work from …

NBC New York reports: Just one week before Christmas, the remainder of New York’s iconic Radio City Rockettes season was called off, as the city and state continue to deal with a surge of new Covid-19 cases. After canceling Friday shows of “Christmas Spectacular” due to breakthrough cases, the Rockettes announced later in the day the premature end of the …