A total of 23 MTA employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, the agency announced Thursday. The batch of positive tests include 19 employees of New York City Transit, which runs the city’s buses and subways, and four Long Island Rail Road workers. Agency Chairman Pat Foye said all 23 employees “are in quarantine or...
NFL teams reportedly are adjusting contract language to protect themselves against the spreading coronavirus, leaving many deals unannounced as players await physical examinations. Coronavirus-related provisions are being placed in free-agent contracts, stating a failed physical will result in forfeited signing bonus money, ESPN reported Thursday. Travel delays and logistics related to the COVID-19 pandemic have...
A man angered over a neighbor’s social distancing practices rammed the guy with his car outside of a Brooklyn synagogue, cops said Thursday. The 31-year-old victim was arguing with the man outside the house of worship on Avenue L near East 9th Street in Midwood around 8:30 pm on Wednesday, with his rival telling him...
The inevitable has finally happened: coronavirus has canned Cannes. The Cannes Film Festival said Thursday it is postponing its 2020 edition, marking one of the biggest business and entertainment event cancellations due to the virus. Organizers said they are now eyeing dates in late June to early July. Here’s the statement from the festival: At...
Several TV medical dramas that have shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic are donating masks, gloves and gowns from their wardrobe departments to real health professionals facing shortages amid the crisis. Fox’s “The Resident” Wednesday gave boxes of personal protective equipment to Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital. “Thank you for this incredibly generous donation of...
A New Jersey family already ravaged by the coronavirus has lost a fourth member to the deadly disease, according to a report Thursday. Vincent Fusco died at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, cousin and Fusco family lawyer Roseann Paradiso Fodera told nj.com. Fusco was among four siblings being treated for the disease at the hospital,...
What a bozo. While the rest of us hole up indoors with hand sanitizer, one chucklehead online personality is flipping the coronavirus the bird by licking New York City subway poles, as seen in a revolting viral video. The “corona-viral” vid has racked up almost 300,000 views since being posted Wednesday to the WorldStarHipHop Twitter...
The Los Angeles Rams issued a simple five-word statement Thursday to bid farewell to one of the marquee players from its recent Super Bowl squad. “We have released Todd Gurley,” the team tweeted on its official account. Gurley, the 10th overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft out of Georgia, posted a league-best 2,093 yards...
Urgent care clinic ParCare Community Health Network has been operating a tented COVID-19 testing site in Bensonhurst.
Love in the time of corona.
Carole Baskin insists she does not have a personal vendetta against Joe Exotic. Never mind that he shot up effigies of her in Internet videos, tried to have her killed (on two occasions) and has long stood in opposition to her beliefs. Whatever the case, their battle — let’s at least call it that —...
It’s a whopper of an offer. In response to the current coronavirus pandemic and its impact on children who receive free and subsidized lunches from increasingly shuttered US school districts, Burger King is offering two free kids meals with every adult meal purchased using the company’s app. The offer is valid starting next week, and...
Ferrari and Fiat Chrysler are in talks with Italy’s biggest ventilator manufacturer to help to boost production of the life-saving machines that are urgently needed in the coronavirus crisis, company officials said on Thursday. Italy is at the epicenter of the pandemic and its government has embarked on a big expansion of the number of...
Sick of your look? Now just might be the time to try something new. “Yesterday I was complaining to my friend that I was bored with my hair, and I kept seeing tutorials on TikTok about how to get natural, nice-looking bangs,” Christine Thomas, a senior at Purdue University who’s staying with her parents in...
The damaging impact of air pollution in urban areas is likely increasing the coronavirus death rate, experts say. As COVID-19 spreads worldwide, experts have warned that people over the age of 60, along with those with preexisting health conditions — such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and chronic respiratory disease — are the most at risk....
The fates of a 19th-century cotton mill, two rival soccer teams and a troubled marriage are bound together in “The English Game,” a mild entertainment from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes. Anglophiles frothing at the mouth for Lord Fellowes’ usual costume-drama eye candy may be disappointed, as the bulk of the story takes place in...
As if beleagured office leasing company WeWork didn’t have enough problems, workers at least seven of its Manhattan locations have been tested positive for the coronavirus, The Post has learned. In the last week, WeWork has scrambled to put out fires in six offices spaces it rents, some of which have closed for cleaning only...
SoftBank Group is looking to raise an additional $10 billion to help its first Vision Fund support portfolio companies hit by the coronavirus pandemic, Bloomberg reported here on Thursday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The Japanese technology conglomerate has reached out to outside investors for $5 billion in funds, which will be matched...
As Broadway grapples with the coronavirus crisis, producers have concluded that the Great White Way will not reopen in April, as they’d hoped. The best-case scenario right now is the summer, and that means many new shows aren’t going to survive. “This is worse than 9/11,” says a top producer. “We lost a few shows...
Gov. Cuomo has been clear: New York won’t have enough hospital beds, ventilators and other resources to meet our exponentially growing need for treating patients infected by the novel coronavirus.
American Airlines plans to cut 75 percent of its international flights through May 6 and ground nearly all its widebody fleet. The move comes as carriers across the globe are feeling the pain as travel demand withers because of the coronavirus outbreak and the companies respond by scrapping flights and ditching financial forecasts. Shares of...
NEW DELHI – When Mrinal Sabharwal and his wife landed in New Delhi with hundreds of other passengers from Barcelona on Monday, they expected clean coronavirus quarantine facilities. Instead, after hours of waiting at the airport and on a bus, they were taken to a converted police training center. There, the travelers found stained beds...
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is a direct threat to the public safety of the City of Brotherly Love. Philly PD Cpl. James O’Connor, shot and killed in the line of duty Friday, didn’t have to die. If not for Krasner treating violent and dangerous criminals with kid gloves, O’Connor would be alive today. O’Connor’s...
With the coronavirus still spreading across all corners of the globe, much of the world is in full-on lockdown mode. In the United States, for example, major metropolitan areas like New York City and Chicago have ordered restaurants and bars to shut down entirely. Meanwhile, a variety of other public establishments — from movie theaters...
Amazon has started asking customers to cooperate with a Department of Justice criminal investigation of third-party sellers on its e-commerce marketplace, according to an e-mail seen by Reuters. The company is informing customers, who may have purchased products from such sellers, according to the e-mail, which was sent by Joell Parks, a senior law enforcement...
