While NYC Worried About COVID-19, 2,700 Caught Flu | Patch PM

Savage Beating Of 15-Year-Old Girl For Shoes | Prof Tests Positive For Coronavirus | Gun Found In Jail

Posted Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 4:20 pm ET

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The flu killed three children in NYC in February, Governor Andrew Cuomo said.

Rabbi Reuven Fink, who teaches at Yeshiva University in Washington Heights where a student was diagnosed this week, also has coronavirus.

A crowd beat, kicked and stomped a 15-year-old girl before stealing her shoes on a Crown Heights street corner on Thursday, police said.

Investigators found the weapon in the jail where Jeffrey Epstein died.

The Greenwich Village captain was the only firefighter to survive a 1966 fire that was the worst loss of NYC firefighters aside from 9/11.

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