De Blasio to keep NYC schools open Monday after warning parents of return to remote learning

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that the city's public schools will reopen on Dec. 7 for 3-K, pre-K and kindergarten through fifth grade amid the coronavirus pandemic.

To improve relations with communities and police, NYPD leaders and Black activists joined together in New York City to hand out turkeys for Thanksgiving to a community in Brooklyn on Monday according to reports. Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, was there after making peace with cops after the death of her son.

David Dinkins was the first and, to date, only Black mayor of New York City.Dinkins began a career as a lawyer in 1956, and he served as president of the New York City Board of Elections from 1972 to 1973 and New York City Clerk from 1975 to 1985. In 1985, he was elected Manhattan borough president, serving until his election as mayor in 1989.

The New York City police department will be bolstering enforcement in subways citywide amid a troubling pattern of instances in which straphangers have been pushed onto the tracks as the Big Apple also works to combat a spurt of shootings and other violence, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday.

Michael Appler Theater is fleeting by nature, and as such, those who pioneer the way for inclusivity on stage — who give performances that chip away at inequity role by role — are sometimes forgotten. With performers like Lillias White and André De Shields, those roles are so numerous that sitting them down together, as the Broadway Advocacy Coalition did on Tuesday night in New York City, erects a living monument to Black Broadway. The Broadway Advocacy Coalition, an activist group leading

New York City protesters began gathering Thursday outside City Hall in Manhattan to demonstrate against Mayor Bill de Blasio for shutting down the nation’s largest public school system due to spiking coronavirus infections, even as Catholic and other elite private schools in the city are allowed to remain open for in-person instruction.

An op-ed from The New York Times offered a stunning admission Wednesday about President Trump's strong stance on keeping schools open during the coronavirus pandemic.  Hours after it was announced that New York City schools would be shutting down amid nationwide spikes in coronavirus cases, Times opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote a piece titled, "When Trump Was Right and Many Democrats Wrong." "Some things are true even though President Trump says them," Kristof began.

New York City schools will be closed beginning Thursday due to a rise in coronavirus cases, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday. But he may have forgotten to tell the top boss of the state.

New York City schools will shut down starting Thursday due to a spike in COVID cases, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday.  De Blasio said officials opted to close schools out of an abundance of caution after coronavirus test positivity rates surpassed a 3% threshold. "We must fight back the second wave," the mayor said on Twitter.  NYC principals are reportedly being told to take necessary items home with them as remote teaching will begin in the morning.