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It could become the toughest smoking law in the nation. A bill would raise the legal smoking age in the county to 25.
The superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Brooklyn called the move "unconscionable" at a rally outside Good Shepherd Catholic Academy.
Cordero spent 95 days in the hospital before losing his battle with COVID-19. The 41-year-old old left behind his wife and the couple's 1-year-old son Elvis.
The schools will be closed for at least two weeks, and the change has many parents scrambling.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo believes mass gatherings are the priority right now to curb the recent increase in positive COVID-19 cases.
It's called the "ScanVan," a mobile mammography unit that's on the road 240 days a year, traveling to medically underserved communities in all five boroughs and Long Island.
The closures are happening one day earlier than the mayor proposed.
Police officers are trained for many scenarios, but no one was prepared to combat the threat of COVID-19.
It may be Cuomo's biggest slap-down of de Blasio in their often tense relationship, an assessment that the mayor's plans for dealing with a surging infection rate is ineffective.
After flattening the curve for months, the Garden State is seeing the highest number of cases since the spring.
The citywide positive test rate over the last week is 1.72%, but some zip codes are seeing double, even quadruple.
The governor says anyone associated with the fundraiser must self-quarantine.
The state's fourth-largest school district had already started remote learning, and about one third of students have chosen to stay remote-only.
The move comes after criticism from the public and Gov. Andrew Cuomo that many officers were enforcing the rule but not following it themselves.
