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NYC hotel rooms are averaging over $300 a night as many hotels exclusively house migrants, reducing supply during a tourism boom
About 135 of the nearly 700 hotels in New York City are now sheltering asylum seekers, According to…
John L. Dorman
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New York City: Kids under 5 years old no longer need to wear masks in school as of April 4
NYC Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday that kids younger than 5 years old will no longer have to we…
Andrea Michelson
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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio threatens to withhold the paychecks of NYPD officers and other city workers who refuse weekly COVID-19 testing
De Blasio says he is "confident" his vaccine or test mandate will work.
Emily Walsh
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Apple shuts down all of its NYC stores for in-person shopping due to rising COVID-19 cases
It's unclear how long stores will remain closed but customers who purchase items online can still p…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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NYC has decided vaccines matter more than tourism
Mayor Bill de Blasio's mandate prioritizes a healthy population over tourists from states with low …
Hillary Hoffower
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New York City is still waiting for its high-spending tourists to come back
Times Square is about to look like Las Vegas. Broadway is busy. Tourism is expected to increase by …
Hillary Hoffower
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Short-staffed NYC schools are asking teachers with mild COVID symptoms to return to the classroom
In New York City, teachers who tested positive five days earlier can return to the classroom if the…
Juliana Kaplan
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New York City is back
NYC's next chapter is beginning. The economy is open, its finances are healing, and the Garden crow…
Hillary Hoffower
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Pictures show how New York's iconic Museum of Natural History has been transformed into a COVID-19 vaccine site
New Yorkers can get their COVID-19 vaccine on the bottom floor of the museum's Hall of Ocean Life.J…
Joey Hadden
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NYC restaurant owner says business has plummeted by up to 70% as Omicron deters diners
Almost a fifth of all NYC coronavirus cases since the pandemic started were reported in December 20…
Grace Dean
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NYC's comeback has made luxury apartments more expensive than ever
High-end NYC apartments with doormen were suddenly affordable in 2020, but as of fall 2021, they we…
Juliana Kaplan,Hillary Hoffow…
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New York City to halt indoor dining as coronavirus cases surge
The city has seen an uptick in cases over recent weeks alongside the United States as a whole.
Graham Rapier
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An NYC doctor has helped nearly 300 vulnerable people get COVID-19 vaccine appointments. Here's how she does it.
It all began with signs in the laundry room: "People started calling me from within the building an…
Lauryn Haas
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More people than ever are snapping up a home in Manhattan
After a "late to the party" recovery, 2021 was a boom year for NYC real estate. Even as Omicron rag…
Hillary Hoffower
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White people received nearly half of COVID-19 vaccines in NYC despite dying at a lower rate than Black and Latino residents
The rate of death among Black New Yorkers is 269 per every 100,000 people while the rate of death a…
Allana Akhtar
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams defends vaccine exemption for athletes like Kyrie Irving: 'We have to be on the field in order to win in both the game of life'
Adams, describing himself as "a war-time general," will allow unvaccinated stars such as Kyrie Irvi…
Jake Lahut
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Brazil's Bolsonaro vows to break NYC COVID-19 mandate by attending UN meetings without getting vaccinated
"Why would I get vaccinated?" Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said in an online broadcast about …
Kelly McLaughlin
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The SantaCon surge has hit NYC
NYC Covid rates just doubled over three days. Omicron is the most contagious variant yet, and it hi…
Hillary Hoffower,Ayelet Sheff…
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Gen Z is reviving some of NYC's most iconic cocktail bars in their latest wave of pandemic nostalgia
Young New Yorkers have a thirst for midcentury Manhattan, and they're quenching it at Bemelmans and…
Hillary Hoffower
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Sarah Palin dined at a restaurant while unvaccinated, breaking NYC COVID-19 rules, 2 days before testing positive
The manager of Elio's, where Palin dined over the weekend, told The New York Times it had made a "m…