BROOKLYN, N.Y. - He couldn't walk and rarely left his apartment, but Juan Vazquez was well known and well liked by his neighbors and friends in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Since his death, many have been leaving flowers and candles outside the apartment window where he greeted them everyday before he fell ill.

"He was just special to all of us. We are devastated beyond words with his loss," said Flor Betancourt, Vazquez's sister.

“I want to live alone in the desert I want to be like Georgia O'Keeffe I want to live on the Upper East Side And never go down in the street.” – Warren Zevon

It’s been one of the darkest springs in New York City history, with 18,231 residents felled by the coronavirus in March and April. That’s like if everyone at a sold-out crowd for a Rangers game at Madison Square Garden dropped dead in two months. Or, if you follow crime in New York City, think of all of those stories about a particularly gruesome murder that gets plenty of attention in our tabloids. Well, New York City has seen 9,532 people classified as homicide victims – for all of the 21st century.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Music therapy is one of the mental health services offered by Woodhull Hospital. Normally, patients meet in groups. That's not possible because of the highly contagious coronavirus. So the staff banded together virtually to create this music video to the song “Lean On Me."

The video is not just aimed at patients; it's also intended for Woodhull staff members working on the front lines in fighting the pandemic.

NEW YORK - While parts of the state prepare to begin reopening Friday, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the number of new coronavirus infections has fallen to the rate it was in March, New York City is not on track to start coming back to life until June at the earliest.

In his daily coronavirus press briefing on Monday, the governor said with all critical indicators on the decline, regions of the state will begin phase one of reopening on May 15 as long as specific guidelines are met.

Seven weeks after Tasnim Shaheen was admitted to Jamaica Hospital and placed on a ventilator — while six months pregnant and fighting the coronavirus — she is going home.

It was a joyous moment for her family, and the doctors and nurses who saved not just her life, but her baby daughter’s, too.

Mayor de Blasio says there’s a possibility that New York City could lift some social distancing restrictions and allow non-essential businesses to open in June. This comes as data showed that daily indicators were trending downward on Monday.

Despite daily indicators dropping, the mayor remains cautiously optimistic about fully reopening the city.

WASHINGTON - A landmark court battle could have radical implications for the American presidency and how all three branches of our federal government interact.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in three cases focused on President Trump’s finances.

New York City’s death toll due to the coronavirus pandemic may be higher than previously thought, with thousands of potential fatalities not included in the official death count, according to newly released data by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Even after counting the number of confirmed and probable COVID-19 deaths, the data show the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene still recorded an additional 5,293 deaths.

Students at Research and Service High School crowded around long tables in the hallways last November to share a Thanksgiving meal. It's the kind of thing Principal Allison Farrington can't organize these days.

"What I miss the most is my hallway. Everybody knows, as a principal, my desk is literally in the middle of the hallway. I miss that interaction with the people. I miss the laughing and the joking and the humor and the music that we play," Farrington said.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A couple is facing hate crime charges after an anti-Semitic assault brought on by a lack of social distancing in Brooklyn.

Police received a 911 call Sunday night about a large crowd gathered on Bedford Avenue and Ross Street in Williamsburg.

NEW YORK - If you were not wearing a mask Sunday at Domino Park there’s a good chance a worker would have asked you to put one on.

You might have even been offered a fresh mask from a police officer.

Patrick Gaspard, one of the mayor’s closest allies, is calling for change to the way the NYPD has enforced social distancing. This comes after newly released NYPD data showed that 81% of the people who received social distancing summonses are Black or Hispanic.

Gaspard, who is the President of the Open Society Foundation, which has pledged to give $37 million to help at-risk communities in New York amid the Coronavirus pandemic, told NY1 that the recent NYPD data depicts a tale of two cities.

Before coronavirus hit the five boroughs, one in five New Yorkers were living in poverty. To make matters worse, the poorest communities in the city have been the hardest hit by the disease.

“One in three parents of small children are skipping meals to feed their children right now in New York,” CEO of Robin Hood Foundation Wes Moore told NY1. “When schools closed, we had 300,000 kids who lacked access to devices to complete their school work; 45,000 are still without one and have not logged on yet."

NEW YORK - Mayor Bill de Blasio shared some good news about the city's three coronavirus indicators at his daily briefing Monday morning and outlined new efforts to boost neighborhood clinics.

The results from this weekend show all three are pointing down.

NEW YORK - Alternate Side Parking rules will remain suspended through Sunday, May 17 in the city.

But they will resume for one week starting next Monday.

The growing death toll from COVID-19 is a daunting figure. But it’s important to remember–especially during these turbulent times and the rough days ahead–that those who’ve died are fellow New Yorker’s with lives and families.

Here we feature just a few of our neighbors who’ve left us. For their full stories head over to our Lives Lost series.

Governor Cuomo is effectively reversing a much-criticized policy directive that was sending seniors treated for COVID-19 back into nursing homes.

A March 25th order from the state Department of Health required all nursing homes to readmit seniors who left to be treated for coronavirus at a hospital.

Traditional Mother's Day bouquets and brunches are on hold this year as the city navigates a new normal in the age of the coronavirus.

"I was going to get her flowers, but the delivery date was a little off because of everything going on, so a card with pop up flowers will have to do," confessed one Queens resident walking with her mother.

At his Sunday coronavirus briefing, Mayor de Blasio confirmed the city has lost 260 public employees to COVID-19, and now he is extending health benefits to their families.

The mayor says it wasn’t just frontline workers who lost their lives, but teachers and other public employees whose families were facing the loss of health insurance. The mayor announced a 45-day extension of those benefits.

Hundreds waited in the rain in Jamaica, Queens — careful to keep an appropriate distance from each other — in a line that stretched for almost two blocks.

One man picking up food was almost in tears when asked how his community is managing during the crisis.

Jimmy Glenn was one of boxing's most beloved figures. He had a career that spanned more than 70 years as an amateur boxer and trainer, but on Thursday fans got the crushing news from his son Adam that the longtime fighter had died from COVID-19.

“After over a month battling coronavirus his body, his reserves, were just depleted and he couldn't keep fighting it,” said Adam Glenn.

New York’s primaries are six weeks away, but the court battles over exactly what those races will look like are raging now.

Last Tuesday, a federal judge ruled in favor of Andrew Yang, his delegate candidates and delegates candidates for Bernie Sanders, ordering that the June 23 presidential primary be reinstated.

Governor Cuomo announced Saturday that a total of three children have now died from a mysterious COVID-related illness, a development the state is now making a top priority.

Symptoms of the condition, which include prolonged fever, rash and severe abdominal pain, resemble a rare illness called Kawasaki disease, and at times bear the markings of toxic shock syndrome. The phenomenon has come to light only in recent days. Friday, Cuomo announced the first known death; a five-year-old boy hospitalized in New York City, and said other deaths are being investigated. There are 73 known cases in New York, he said.

Kim Capone has a knack for business.

She owns five Lu Bella Boutiques in three boroughs.

Samantha DeCicco was visibly excited about buying a puppy when standing outside a Brooklyn pet shop on Thursday.

“We are supposed to be staying inside but I want to be staying inside with a puppy,” said DeCicco.

Comedian Tom Cassidy is testing out some new jokes in front of a Zoom audience. He's used to doing stand-up at New York Comedy Club in person, but now he's taking part in one of the venue's new digital shows.

"Like I did a zoom show on Wednesday, and it was just fun to get laughter from someone who is not my girlfriend," Cassidy said.

The MTA is set to get $3.9 billion in grant money from the federal government to deal with the coronavirus crisis, but the agency has already said they need more.

The Trump administration agreed Friday to release the funds, which had already been approved as part of the original coronavirus stimulus package passed by Congress in March.

A five-year-old child, who died in New York City, is the first documented fatality in the city from a mystery inflammatory illness potentially related to the new coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed Friday.

As of this writing, it was not confirmed where the child was from, but health officials confirmed the child died of the illness Thursday at Mount Sinai Children’s Hospital.

The hustle of New York City will be back, but the bustle might be a bit subdued.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is allowing some businesses in parts of upstate New York to resume operations next week.

A vast majority of the summonses the NYPD has issued so far for social distancing violations have gone to black and Hispanic people.

According to the NYPD, of the 374 summonses handed out from March 16 to May 5 for social distancing violations, 193 were given to black people and 111 were issued to Hispanics. Added together, that totals more than 81 percent of all summonses issued.

Who has the final say over what happens in states? The President, or state governors? It’s a question that has been asked since the beginning of the Republic -- but the COVID-19 pandemic is adding urgency to the matter.

States are beginning to loosen restrictions meant to stop the spread of the deadly virus. But President Trump still has criticized states for not moving quickly enough in opening up. This even as states don’t follow all of the Trump administration’s own benchmarks before ending strict quarantine orders.

"In a matter of 15 days, our entire book of business was gone."

That's how breathtakingly quickly Kerri Gartell-Eng says the coronavirus pandemic dropped a crisis in her lap. And it happened just as April was about to begin.

NEW YORK - Camp Settoga is an oasis in Rockland County run by the Marlene Meyerson JCC in Manhattan. It’s a 22-acre site where kids can swim, play sports, and hang out together in an environment outside the city.

Whether or not the campgrounds will be full of happy campers or will be desolate, is still up in the air because of the coronavirus pandemic.

NEW YORK - Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday officially announced new social distancing measures at some city parks as a way to prevent overcrowding.

Piers 45 and 46 at Hudson River Park will now have a limit on the number of people allowed in at a single time.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Taking to Brooklyn streets in a protest caravan Thursday, activists accused the NYPD of disproportionately enforcing social distancing rules in communities of color, and being abusive while doing so.

Multiple videos have been posted on social media from across the city showing officers arresting African-Americans, sometimes cursing and punching them.

NEW YORK - Temperature checks are based on a simple premise: that fever is a primary symptom of coronavirus.

But what if it’s not?

When patients are discharged from the hospital after being treated for COVID-19, the recovery usually is far from over. Some are diagnosed with Post Intensive Care Syndrome, also known as PICS. It is a condition separate from the illness that causes that patient to be in the ICU.

The symptoms can be physical and emotional and are caused by the intensive level of care they received. For COVID patients, the isolation from family is hard mentally and the treatments, like being placed on a ventilator, take a physical toll.

One of the hardest hit industries during this pandemic is restaurants.

The city says spending at restaurants was down over 90 percent in late March. That amounts to more than $1 billion in lost revenue for city.

NEW YORK - Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams have spotlighted the disproportionate harm caused to black and Latino New Yorkers.

Now, frustrated by the local and state response, they’re leading a call for the Republican president to launch a civil rights probe into their fellow Democrats.

NEW YORK - Governor Andrew Cuomo is giving some help to tenants who no longer can pay their rent because of the economic crash sparked by COVID-19.

“People literally are worried about being able to pay rent. You don't work for two months and that rent bill keeps coming in. You know it's not that the bill payers, the bill collectors have taken a vacation, bill collectors work right, they still send the bill and you still get collection notices," Cuomo said during his daily briefing Thursday.

The opening of Hudson Yards drew big crowds and international attention.

The retail anchor of the 25 billion-dollar development, Neiman Marcus, has its first store in Manhattan. But nearly 14 months, later the high-end retailer, battered by coronavirus closures has now filed for chapter 11, bankruptcy.

“I was checking my email for the SBA Loan status and then it said, you’ll get your funds in three days and my wife and I were just ecstatic,” said Marty Krutolow, Owner, Marty’s V Burger.

Marty Krutlolow, owner of Marty’s V Burger, a vegan restaurant on East 27th Street is feeling lot more optimistic these days.

NEW YORK - A Thursday night preliminary vote on potential rent increases for the city's roughly one million rent-stabilized units resulted in a decision to freeze rent for one year leases. The board added that rents could potentially be raised 1% on two year leases.

The ruling passed 5-4 in favor of the updated guidelines.

As Gov. Cuomo extends the moratorium on evictions, NY1's Zack Fink, Courtney Gross, and Juan Manuel Benitez analyze calls from advocates to do more by canceling rent during the coronavirus pandemic.

New York City’s health department will no longer lead coronavirus contact tracing efforts, sources told NY1 on Thursday night.

According to sources, NYC Health + Hospitals will be at the helm as more than one thousand workers monitor those who tested positive for COVID-19.

It was mid-March when Gov. Andrew Cuomo began to sound the alarm.

“One of the most dense areas are the state national prison system, where you have people in close quarters, and that’s going to be a real problem and a worse problem as this develops,” Cuomo said at the time, adding, “Again, affecting the vulnerable populations.”

NEW YORK - New York City is setting out to measure exactly how many of its residents have been infected by COVID-19.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an expanded antibody testing effort on Thursday, focused on first responders, healthcare workers and the hardest hit areas of the city. It will all be free.

The city is considering a plan to limit the number of people that can go into some parks, Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a coronavirus press briefing Thursday.

The mayor said he and the police commissioner have had "extensive conversations with members of both our teams and other agencies as well" about a plan, and suggested there will be more details at Friday's briefing.

Rosa Serrano’s story is truly a profile in courage. Married at just 13 years old, she left her native Puerto Rico for The Bronx with two daughters in tow. Carmen was five and Iris was just two.

84-year old Serrano was admitted to Mt. Sinai in late March, suffering from symptoms of COVID-19. She passed away two weeks later, on April 10th. But she wasn’t alone. Her daughter, Carmen Ruiz, who has lung cancer and was hit hard by the virus, was in the next bed.

Early Thursday, police arrived at Staten Island University Hospital – not because of a medical emergency, but to make an arrest.

Nurse Danielle Conti, 43, was hauled out on charges of stealing a patient's credit card while he was dying of the new coronavirus.

The egg creams will no longer flow at an East Village landmark. Gem Spa, a candy store with a big claim to fame for its egg cream drinks, is permanently shutting down due to the coronavirus pandemic, the owner announced Thursday.

The lyrics begin with “When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high, and don’t be afraid of the dark.”

“You'll Never Walk Alone” is the classic inspirational show tune from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel.”

To the naked eye, these photos may just come across as celebrity portraits with interesting compositions. But would you believe these were all photographed over video conference?

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It’s an unforgettable sight: more than a hundred people packed into the streets of Williamsburg, lifting a four-ton statue called the Giglio.

It’s a tradition dating back to 1903, when Italian immigrants brought their customs to Brooklyn as a way to honor their patron Saint San Paulino.

NEW YORK - President Donald Trump put hydroxychloroquine on the map by cheerleading for the drug before researchers could determine its effectiveness.

Now, it is all but disappearing as a treatment for COVID-19.

“It's too soon. It's too soon. We, not only did he have plans, we had plans. We had plans and you look up and tomorrow is not promised and now I wear his wedding ring around my neck,” said wife Emmlynn Taylor.

Saying goodbye to her husband of almost 19 years is one of the hardest things Emmlynn Taylor has ever done. He was her friend, companion and traveling partner.

In an interview with political reporter Juan Manuel Benítez, CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez says federal aid would be crucial in determining the university budget for next year.

“No decisions have been made about tuition for next year,” Matos Rodríguez said. “We are all for example lobbying very hard for the federal government to do its part and provide aid to the states. That aid to the states would be crucial. So we are waiting to see what the landscape is closer to the end of June when we have to enact our budget to make that decision.”

Earlier this week, Costco became the latest retailer to set limits as to how much chicken, beef, or pork that each customer can buy.

And now there’s growing concern not only about the vulnerability of our nation’s supply chain for meat, but about the rising cost for those products.

New York’s Democratic presidential primary has been postponed, canceled and now restored by a federal judge who said the cancellation was an unconstitutional infringement on the rights of candidates.

On Wednesday, the state Board of Elections announced plans to appeal the judge’s decision, but attention was already shifting to how New Yorkers can safely vote in the June 23rd primaries, which also include congressional and state legislative races.

NEW YORK - Melissa Honkanen became one of the first New Yorkers to receive a dose of an experimental coronavirus vaccine Monday in a clinical trial taking place at NYU Langone Health’s Vaccine Center.

“I felt like this is a great opportunity to be part of a solution and help people have a little bit of hope that there might a vaccine that can help to prevent this,” Honkanen said.

There are 64 potential cases of children in New York with a mysterious inflammatory disease associated with COVID-19, state Department of Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said Wednesday.

State health officials released an advisory on the condition Wednesday in order to provide guidance for testing and reporting. Health care providers, including hospitals, are required to report any cases of inflammatory syndrome in children to the state Department of Health.

Update, 9:52 p.m., May 6, 2020: 64 children in New York state have a mysterious inflammatory disease associated with the new coronavirus, the Department of Health said Wednesday.

NEW YORK - As COVID-19 ravaged the city in recent weeks, parents could at least take refuge in the fact that children were largely unscathed.

New York City is broke.

The coronavirus health crisis has blown a $8.7 billion budget hole in the city’s $89.3 billion financial plan. And now both sides of City Hall are scrambling to plug the gap.

Statewide there were roughly 600 new hospitalizations from the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, a number that has dropped from its peak a few weeks ago, but not as quickly as health officials would like.

A new survey of 1,300 patients at 113 hospitals around New York state suggests that 66 percent of all new hospitalizations are people who are sheltering at home. And only 3 percent in New York City had been using public transportation.

It seems calm outside of Fishkill Correctional Facility, but the location is where deaths from the new coronavirus are climbing.

As of Wednesday, 15 state prison inmates have died from COVID-19. 415 inmates have tested positive. So have more than 1,100 staff members.

Gustavo Montenegro has owned Headrush Barbershop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn for more than 20 years.

Many of his customers know him as "Goose." Montenegro is also known to his neighbors for his generosity.

More than 50 hospital staffers left their families in Ithaca 30 days ago, determined to help New York City through the pandemic.

They each came with hope of helping their colleagues here manage the crises.

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Zoom fans, rejoice: The city says teachers can once again use the platform for remote learning.

The latest data shows the country’s efforts at social distancing are beginning to have an impact. In areas hardest hit by the coronavirus, new reported cases are dropping.

While the trends are promising, health officials and scientists warn, it’s still too soon to relax social distancing measures. Easing up on restrictions could lead to a surge of deadly infections known as a “second wave.”

Right now, many families are separated from loved ones who are hospitalized. It happened to Adasha and her family. When her brother was hospitalized at Harlem Hospital, they found out there were a very limited number of iPads to connect families with patients.

So Adasha and her daughter Ciara started a GoFundMe to buy iPads for hospitals and nursing homes with limited technology.

While New Yorkers are stuck at home during the pandemic, many are getting reacquainted with their kitchens, and trying their hand at home cooking. Baked goods are always a good place to start, and Milk Bar owner Christina Tosi is looking to help these new bakers.

Tosi now hosts a daily bake club on her Instagram, and shares tips for cooking with limited ingredients. She says baking can be a great way for a family to spend quality time together, as well as to teach kids about subjects like fractions or chemistry as they remain home from school.

We've seen how some young people tend to resist social distancing measures and risk spreading the virus to the most vulnerable among us. It's a worldwide concern that's prompted a Broadway and Disney star to launch a new PSA campaign directed at the Gen Z demographic in an effort to teach the importance of staying home during the pandemic.

It’s called “GenZStayHome.” The video features teens, kids, and adults, all under the age of 24, from nearly all 50 states, and even other countries.

Scott Zwiren was, according to Michele Emanuele, who knew him since the fifth grade, a creative genius. “He was an incredible genius,” she said, “and I just want the world to know he existed. He was part of the art department, he wrote for the school paper, he was always in plays.”

Zwiren and Emanuele lost touch when they went off to different high schools and his life took a terrible turn after he completed the film program at NYU. The life-long Brooklynite began an unending battle with mental illness, suffering severe bouts of depression. When he was 23, he attempted suicide, twice, the second time by jumping in front of a 1 train. But he seemed to channel his demons into his work.

NEW YORK - Jenny Tim works in a busy lab at Metropolitan Hospital conducting tests for coronavirus and antibodies. The lab operates 24/7.

“We don't ever close," Tim noted.

Respiratory therapists received little public attention before the pandemic, but they are among the true heroes of the coronavirus crisis. These licensed medical professionals are now at the front lines against COVID-19, trying to help patients fighting to breathe.

Licensed respiratory therapist David Van De Carr at Mount Sinai Morningside Heights in Manhattan shared his experience helping critically ill victims of this disease through a video diary.

Alex Diaz says he typically hops on the ‘D’ train after closing up ‘DR Produce Corp’ in Norwood at around 1 a.m. every day. He fears his already lengthy commute back to Long Island will get even worse with subways closing overnight for cleaning.

“And I can’t close early or close late because my community depends on us and this is what we do here,” said commuter Alex Diaz.

NEW YORK - Longtime partners Sean Mckenna and Michael think of themselves as living "together apart" in their small one bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side. Michael works at a grocery store; Sean lives with HIV/AIDS.

"We have kind of morphed into living separately for my safety. I've seen him cry before he leaves for work for fear of bringing something home to me. That makes me feel awful. If we're in the room together we wear masks but basically he is living in the bedroom and I'm living in the living room," Sean said.

The subways are back in operation following an overnight shutdown between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. The MTA took subway service offline so staffers could deep clean the cars due to the pandemic.

The effort to disinfect every train, every night marked the first time the subway system was entirely shut down in its history.

This is a bodega safety kit: "A K-95 mask, a box of latex gloves which are very hard to get your hands on and a bottle of hand sanitizer,” said Dr. Debbie Almontaser, Co-Founder, Yemeni American Merchants Association.

The Yemeni American Merchants Association is making them and distributing them to as many of its three thousand members as possible.

A Queens state senator representing one of the hardest hit areas in this pandemic is asking legislators to go back to Albany so they can help working families.

“I feel quite desperate to go back to legislate,” State Senator Jessica Ramos said. “Look, we are all working very hard in our districts to provide for our neighbors as best as we can, but part of our work is to pass bills that propose solutions to what’s happening on the ground.”

The COVID-19 pandemic is showing us all just how much nurses do each and every day. Almost one month ago, 50 nurses from Cayuga Medical Center went to the frontlines of the pandemic in New York City.

"I've been down here for almost four weeks and I still can't believe what I'm seeing and I can't believe what I'm doing," said Julie Niederhofer.

For almost 24 years — Jan Rudy has called the streets of Maspeth, Queens home. He says no time has been more challenging than right now with the city under siege from the coronavirus.

“Difficult is not the word. It’s been treachery, it’s been so enormous mentally,” said Rudy.

John Francis has been living at Isabella Geriatric Center for three years. He has dementia and a pacemaker.

On Monday, he tested positive for COVID-19.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Except for workers laying sewer lines beneath Surf Avenue and Nathan's serving hot dogs to customers socially distancing themselves, it's all quiet in Coney Island's amusement district, which was supposed to begin it's summer season a month ago.

"We're just waiting for our cue when to turn everything back on," said Dick Zigun with Coney Island USA.

Starting Wednesday, for the first time in New York City history, the subway system is shutting down overnight for daily cleanings due to the coronavirus pandemic.

When will trains be shut down? What if you need to commute overnight? How long will the shutdown last? Here is what you need to know about the unprecedented move.

A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of New York’s June 23 presidential primary, ruling that its cancelation was a violation of voters’ constitutional rights.

The decision Tuesday came as a result of a lawsuit filed against the state Board of Elections by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and several Yang delegate candidates.

Despite not being able to physically attend classes, drama students at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts have been expanding their knowledge and creativity online. Instructor Michelle Cortese, who is also a VR product designer for Facebook’s AR/VR Experiences team, has been teaching a performance class like nothing you've ever seen before.

"Because we only had the students for five weeks, they were given a simple prompt once they had gotten used to using virtual reality, and it was ‘create a scripted performance to be performed in VR to a telepresent audience,’” said Cortese.

NEW YORK - Videos of social distancing arrests are stirring controversy across the city.

In one video that police say was taken Sunday night just after 10 p.m., a group was seen on a stoop in East New York, not too far from the 75th Precinct, allegedly failing to follow social distancing protocols.

The home that Krystle Clark and Martin Mundzik purchased in Arverne is more than just a home, it’s been a financial lifeline for the Queens couple.

They rent out the second floor of their home on Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms.

Governor Cuomo says the estimated death toll from coronavirus in New York State is now double what it previously had been. According to Cuomo, the models have shifted now that the discussion has moved to reopening the economy, and his administration is faced with a dilemma, namely easing the economic pain as quickly as possible, while also saving lives.

“What is that trade off because it is very real. If you now look at the projection models of how many lives will be lost, you’ve noticed they changed recently,” said Cuomo. “Why did they change? And they went up dramatically. Why? Because now they’re factoring in the reopening plans and the reopening schedule that states are announcing.”