There are multiple websites, disappearing slots and even attempts to game the system. Here’s our guide to what you have to do to get a dose in your arm.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city would run out of doses by next week.
Making an inoculation appointment has been a challenge, with crashing websites, confusing sign-up systems and a shortage of openings.
The pandemic has made life hard for many people, and their pets, but others find themselves with more time and the resources to help.
The coronavirus variant discovered in Britain is more easily spread among children, as it is among adults. Current safeguards should protect schools, experts said, but only if strictly enforced.
The value of office buildings and hotel properties, which have all but emptied out since the pandemic began, is expected to take a nosedive.
A million city residents who are over 65 are now eligible to be vaccinated. But try making an appointment.
Mr. Gray started or worked on programs designed to give young people a decent education in a troubled school system. He died of complications of Covid-19.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the New York Yankees were working with the city to turn Yankee Stadium into a mass Covid-19 vaccination site. No opening date has been set.
The governor’s agenda focuses on curtailing the pandemic, including vaccinating New Yorkers, and easing the fiscal crisis.
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York announced on Monday that the city has begun administering coronavirus vaccines to residents aged 75 and older as well as a wider range of essential workers.
Teachers, residents older than 75 and more medical workers can now get Covid-19 shots as the state eases its rules.
Mayor Bill de Blasio pushed the state to allow New York City to vaccinate essential workers and older residents for Covid-19, saying the city had 270,000 doses it could administer to New Yorkers over 75 if the state allowed it.
As infection rates stay high, the threat of school closures loom once more. And some educators are teaching on television to reach kids without internet.
A convenient spot was never easy to find, but an increase in car ownership and a decrease in available spaces have some drivers desperate.
The first two of more than a hundred planned locations in New York City opened on Tuesday in an effort to speed up the pace.
The governor threatened penalties for hospitals that don’t increase the pace of inoculations, and made more health care workers eligible.
The threat of the virus has transformed outdoor spaces that would normally sit empty during cold-weather months — though some options are priced beyond the reach of many New Yorkers.
Since the pandemic hit, car ownership has soared, stoking tensions over parking spots. Advocacy groups for mass transit don’t have much sympathy.
The sluggish pace of vaccinations has been particularly striking in New York City, the onetime epicenter of the pandemic.
The sluggish pace of vaccinations has been particularly striking in New York City, the onetime epicenter of the pandemic.
So far, most vaccinations have been given on weekdays, and the sense of urgency that New Yorkers expected has not yet emerged.
It’s another way to reach students without internet or computers during the pandemic.
In New York City, at least 243 people died in crashes in 2020 — the most since Mayor Bill de Blasio introduced his signature street safety plan in 2014.
With a new variant of the virus emerging elsewhere in the country, it’s crucial to vaccinate New Yorkers quickly. But so far, only about 88,000 have received the shots.
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York set an ambitious 2021 resolution, pledging on Thursday to accelerate the city’s efforts to get more residents doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.
“There’s some pieces of normalcy that I don’t really want back,” said one New Yorker. “Our normal wasn’t always ideal.”
Celebrations will be muted as 2020 finally comes to an end, but they will bring much-needed touches of grace.
A time without precedent saw huge increases in homicides and shootings in the city as some other categories of crime plummeted.
In a season of expectation, looking for respite and meaning.
In the first wave of Covid, the crush of bodies overwhelmed New York City’s capacity to deal with the dead. Now, the city is prepared if a second onslaught occurs.
New Yorkers are world-famous kvetchers. But when we got something real to complain about, we changed our tune.
“I am so disappointed and saddened that this happened,” a New York hospital executive wrote to his staff after workers who did not have priority cut the line for the vaccine.
In the spring, with permission from staff, patients and their families, we shadowed one doctor for a day to get a sense of what it is like on the front lines of the pandemic.
Despite outbreaks in shelters and the prospect of more, the rates of infection among homeless populations are lower than feared.
No age group has faced a worse economic crisis in New York City than young workers, especially those who are Black, Hispanic or do not have a college degree.
Companies, unions and trade groups are making pitches that their workers should be prioritized.
Companies, unions and industry trade associations are lobbying governments to include their workers in the next round of virus vaccines.
The mass vaccination program is off to an encouraging, if slow, start.
This fall New York City’s public schools faced perhaps their biggest challenge in memory: Could they resume in person safely? And for how long? We filmed in one school for 33 days to chronicle every step of the reopening.
The National Weather Service suggested that snow accumulations in New York City could end up on the low end of the initial forecasts of eight to 12 inches.
City and state officials are trying to recover millions from quick deals made during the worst weeks of the pandemic this spring.
Wednesday’s snowstorm in New York City will be the biggest in recent years. Many New Yorkers were planning to stay home anyway.
New York’s transportation agency is expected to pass a stopgap budget that omits the draconian cuts transit officials have threatened in recent months.
In New York City and elsewhere, classes will be held online no matter how bad storms are this year in a shift that makes some parents wistful.
Up to a foot of snow is forecast in New York City between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday evening.
The first coronavirus vaccine in the country was administered in Queens.
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York said the increasing amount of hospitalizations from the coronavirus could lead to another shutdown of nonessential businesses.
Vaccinations are scheduled to take place on Monday, according to one hospital system.