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Michelle Rodriguez of Fountain House encourages a holistic approach, encouraging activities and interaction that boost confidence and self-reliance.
- Spending 14 of her 16 years with the Correction Department patrolling New York City’s toughest environs — those inside Rikers Island — wasn’t enough service for Officer Jessica Davis.
- Instead of euthanizing the cats, Santell's goal is to let them live but prevent them from having more kittens.
- As a mail carrier for the last 38 years, Boniello thrives on the regularity of his route through the leafy neighborhood of duplexes and garden apartments and the interaction with the people he serves.
- At the height of the COVID pandemic, NYPD Sgt. James Clarke had nowhere to run the annual NYPD Youth Police Academy, so he decided to do one of his own.
- As a board-certified behavior analyst and the director of Cornerstone Behavioral Services in Wantagh, Iannarone and her team assist autistic children in their homes and advocate for them and their parents at school.
- From the Rockaways to Harlem, Lt. Lenora Moody is using football and after-school fun to steer kids away from violent futures.
- KIng Singh and his parents founded King Fights Cancer, a non-profit foundation, as a vehicle for King to help families with children fighting cancer by providing toys to clothing to gift cards for food delivery services to make up for bad hospital food.
- The recent ABC mini-series, ”Women of the Movement,” which the network broadcast on three consecutive Thursday nights last month [January], introduced Dr. T.R.M. Howard to millions of Americans who had never heard of the late civil rights leader. They deserve to know more.
- Jonathan Santiago hand-delivered thousands of checks to working students during the COVID pandemic.
- Esther Curenton has tirelessly supported kids and their families as the senior program manager of the city Health Department’s Children & Youth with Special Health Care Needs Program.
- Dr. Mark Souweidane is a hero to many, saving young lives daily as a pediatric neurosurgeon. His passion, though, is finding a cure for an almost universally fatal brain-stem cancer, DIPG, that occurs in children.
- A steady stream of more than 60 older teens and young men have crossed the threshold into Bryant’s home since 2007, when a 19-year-old convinced the Administration for Children’s Services worker to take him in as a foster kid.
- Two of Tweedy’s coworkers nominated her for a Daily News Hometown Hero award for transforming the Lexington Ave. spot from a local soup kitchen into one that prepared three million meals for 64,000 households in the last fiscal year.
- NYPD Det. Tanya Duhaney’s good deeds while working in the Patrol Borough Queens South Community Affairs offices spans the past 10 years.
- Few educators were as dedicated as Nick Marinacci, a deputy school superintendent who volunteered at the height of the COVID-19 crisis to supervise a regional enrichment center In the South Bronx so students could attend in-person classes even as other children were learning remotely.
- As remnants of Hurricane Ida began to dump buckets of rain on New York in September, Ray Pereira started a four-day, around-the-clock effort to clear floods from the subways and get trains running again.
- The married mother of two teenage sons launched her “Candice’s Sickle Cell Fund” campaign two decades ago, emerging as a local advocate for the estimated 100,000 Americans living with sickle cell.
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- New York City kicks off Phase Two of reopening following the coronavirus outbreak on Monday, June 22, 2020. The second phase opens up outdoor dining, in-store retail, hair salons, barbershops, real estate services, houses of worship. Offices will also be allowed to open, sending around 300,000 people back to work. On Monday, July 6, 2020, NYC entered Phase Three, reopening tattoo parlors, nail and tanning salons, spas, massage parlors and dog runs. The Parks Department also reopened courts for basketball, tennis, volleyball, etc. and the Staten Island Ferry resumed regular rush hour service. While indoor dining was supposed to be included, Mayor Bill de Blasio postponed indefinitely due to a spike in COVID-19 cases. New York City entered Phase 4 on Monday, July 20, 2020, reopening low-risk outdoor venues, like zoos and botanical gardens, as well as production of media and TV shows, fanless pro sports and partial reopening of Liberty Island. On Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021, New York City enforced a vaccine mandate, requiring people to show proof of a COVID-19 vaccine for indoor dining, gyms and other indoor activities.
- New York City is honoring the essential workers at the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic with a Hometown Heroes ticker-tape parade through Manhattan's Canyon of Heroes on Wednesday, July 7, 2021. Workers from healthcare, transportation, utilities, education, bodega, city and more will be included in the celebration. Notably missing will be thousands of frontline workers planning to boycott, including the city’s EMT and paramedics.
- Coronavirus has been rapidly spreading across Europe and the rest of the world since it was first discovered in Wuhan, China in Dec. 2019. Since the outbreak began, 121 million cases have been confirmed worldwide and more than 2.68 million deaths reported. Four European countries, Italy, Spain, France and England, have been the hardest-hit countries in Western Europe, with nearly 378,000 deaths. See how COVID-19 continues to hit Europe amid the pandemic.
- New York City marks the one-year anniversary of its first recorded coronavirus death in the city on Sunday, March 14, 2021. To remember the more than 30,000 lives lost throughout the pandemic in the five boroughs, the city host a virtual memorial service called 'A COVID-19 Day of Remembrance,' featuring a performance by The New York Philharmonic and the faces of victims projected onto the Brooklyn Bridge.
- It’s been a year unlike any other in New York City, and the world as a whole. The coronavirus pandemic affected lives, businesses and livelihoods throughout the five boroughs. Look back at a year of COVID-19 from the lens of New York Daily News photographers.
- The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in New York following the CDC’s approval to administer the long-awaited vaccine in the U.S. Thousands of vials are set to arrive in all 50 states on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. New York gave the first vaccine to a health care worker who spent the last ten months fighting coronavirus on the front lines.
- New York has been one of the hardest-hit U.S. states to be affected by the new COVID-19 outbreak that originated in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019. The number of cases in New York state reached 516,114 as of Tuesday, November 3, 2020, with 269,519 cases in New York City alone. The outbreak has killed 33,187 people in the state so far, with 24,017 of the victims coming from the city. New York initially issued a stay at home order starting Sunday, March 22 and has slowly reopened businesses over the course of four phases, with Phase 4 beginning on July 20, 2020.
- From stay-at-home orders to closing public beaches and parks, see how each state in America is handling the coronavirus outbreak.
- Many sculptures and statues around the world are seen wearing makeshift face masks during the coronavirus outbreak.
- Prominent contemporary artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada transformed the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park with a 20,000 square foot memorial to COVID-19 victims in Queens, N.Y. The monumental piece features the eyes of Dr. Ydelfonso Decoo, who was part of the SOMOS Community Care network in NYC, and died of COVID-19.
