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The article reports on the move by the New York City government led by Mayor Bill de Blasio to implement targeted shutdowns to prevent the increase of new coronavirus cases in the city as of October 2020. Under the new restriction plan, schools and nonessential businesses will be closed and indoor and outdoor restaurant dining will be prohibited. The plan is awaiting the approval of New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo.

The article focuses on New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, who has announced that New York City would take several more steps toward normalcy and more people would soon be allowed in restaurants.

An obituary for former lieutenant governor of New York, Alfred DelBello is presented.

The article reports on the status of the residency programs of doctors, amidst the stringent health law, in New York City.

The article offers information on Tribeca Teaches, a program which teaches young persons in 21 schools in New York City and Los Angeles, California on how to make films.

An obituary for New York police detective David Durk is presented.

An obituary for a printmaker and painter Will Barnet is presented.

Any love-hate relationship must have its share of pain, so the academic world, in its obsession with college rankings, is suitably dismayed by news that an elite college, Claremont McKenna, fudged its numbers in an apparent bid to climb the charts. Dismayed, but not quite surprised. In fact, several colleges in recent years have been caught gaming the system -- in particular, the avidly watched U.S. News & World Report rankings -- by twisting the meanings of rules, cherry-picking data or just lying. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, some workers and mourners at the World Trade Center site seized upon a cross-shaped steel beam found amid the rubble as a symbol of faith and hope. For the past five years, the 17-foot-tall cross was displayed outside a nearby Catholic church. On Saturday it was moved again, to the site of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, where it is to be in the permanent collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Charisma Massey and her friend did not feel threatened when a black car pulled up alongside them as they walked to the corner store in their Crown Heights, Brooklyn, neighborhood one day in October. Not until they heard the gunshots. The two girls ran, unharmed, and raced for home. Fortunately, the car did not follow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When the city's artists are fuming, they create. And when the focus of their rage is Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his efforts to crack down on selling art in parks, a new genre is born. There, on Friday, was the mayor in all varieties: Bloomberg the Barbarian, a muscle-bound mayor with sword and helmet; Bloomberg the Stalinist, a frowning mayor lost in a fiery red sea; Bloomberg the Billionaire, with dollar signs for eyes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The speakers behind the green sofa and love seat in the sunny living room of Rosa Cruz's Washington Heights apartment were silent as Ms. Cruz's 10-year-old granddaughter, Maria Cruz de Leon, shyly danced. Maria said she loved dancing and singing, but she liked dancing more because ''when I'm dancing, I just feel like I'm alone and everybody's watching me.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A fast-moving fire that may have been sparked by incense swept through the top floor of a six-story apartment building in Brooklyn on Wednesday, killing a man and his two small children, fire officials said. The blaze began in a bedroom of the family's apartment on the top floor of 654 St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights just before 12:30 p.m. It was called in from a block away by a fifth-grade teacher whose students spotted the flames from their fourth-floor classroom at Public School 138, fire officials and witnesses said. With her students panicking, the teacher called 911 and gave a rough address of the building. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Max Ulitskiy flew his $3,000 Yak Extra 330L over Marine Park in Brooklyn. The plane swooped over a baseball field, then banked toward the runway. During the entire flight, Mr. Ulitskiy's feet were planted firmly on the ground. Mr. Ulitskiy, 32, is a member of the Radio Control Society of Marine Park, and he was flying a remote-controlled plane from a runway in a desolate part of the park where the club has taken off and landed since the early 1970s. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

New York City's parking rules are sometimes so confusing that it can seem as if they were meant to be broken. Using a meter requires handfuls of coins, precise timing and a careful reading -- and rereading -- of parking signs. But even Maurice Mizrahi would have a hard time pleading ignorance of the violation that the police have accused him of committing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two days after the bruised, emaciated body of a 4-year-old girl was discovered in a Brooklyn apartment, new information from officials emerged about her life and death as her mother on Saturday made her first appearance in court to face criminal charges. In a criminal complaint, prosecutors outlined a fearsome litany of abuse that they said the girl, Marchella Pierce, suffered in her final days at the hands of her mother, Carlotta Brett-Pierce, 30. The girl, who had been plagued by severe health problems since her birth on April 30, 2006, weighed 18 pounds when she died, according to the complaint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During a yearlong string of shootings before his arrest in the summer of 1977, David Berkowitz, known as the Son of Sam, killed six people and wounded seven others in New York City. Upon his confession to the shootings, the portrait of the serial killer that emerged was of a deeply disturbed loner, a man with a .44-caliber handgun who said he took orders from a demonic black Labrador retriever owned by a neighbor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Street vendors who have become fixtures at some of Manhattan's busiest parks -- hawking paintings, kitschy souvenirs and all sorts of ephemera -- may find themselves a lonelier crowd, as the Bloomberg administration proposes to cut their numbers by 75 percent. On Friday, the Department of Parks and Recreation is scheduled to hold a hearing on a proposal to slice the number of vendors allowed in parts of Central Park and all of Union Square Park, Battery Park and the High Line Park. If the proposal is approved, as expected, the restrictions would begin to take effect in a month. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the opening of the Second Avenue subway in New York City on December 31, 2016. Thousands of riders cheered and cried after the subway was opened. The line is intended to ease the overcrowding of the train system. The subway added three new stations for the city. Artworks adorned the subway's walls.

Howard Safir, a New York City police commissioner during the Giuliani administration, backed his sport utility vehicle into a pregnant woman on the Upper East Side on Friday afternoon and then drove away, the police said. The woman, Joanne M. Valarezo, 30, of the Bronx, was not knocked down and was not seriously injured in the accident, which occurred at 2:25 p.m. in front of 1418 Third Avenue, the authorities said. They said she was able to jot down the license plate of Mr. Safir's black 2009 Cadillac Escalade. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It was supposed to be a photo opportunity, a showcase of Air Force One alongside the sweep of New York City skyline. But as the low-flying Boeing 747 speeded in the shadows of skyscrapers, trailed by two fighter jets, the sight instead awakened barely dormant fears of a terrorist attack, causing a momentary panic that sent workers pouring out of buildings on both sides of the Hudson River. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When the gunfire started, Donald Banks crouched behind a parked car on Lenox Avenue, not sure where the bullets were coming from and not caring, as long as they did not get too close. Two blocks away, Sandra Willoughby closed her eyes and cowered in the doorway of an apartment building, praying that whoever was shooting would not come her way. Scores of terrified people sprinted in the darkness. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]