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New York's Out-Of-State Visitors Must Quarantine, Cuomo Says
Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a travel advisory Wednesday mandating visitors from states with high COVID-19 rates quarantine for 14 days.

Kathleen Culliton is regional manager of Patch's New York City bureau.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a travel advisory Wednesday mandating visitors from states with high COVID-19 rates quarantine for 14 days.

"We are running out of options here," Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. "That is the blunt truth."
The life of a 15-year-old boy may be in danger after he was abducted by his older brother Wednesday morning, police said.
"The rumors are true," Mayor de Blasio tweeted Tuesday night. Replied a Wall Street Journal reporter, "We don't publish rumors."
Most races hung in the balance Tuesday night as the city waited for more than 700,000 absentee votes to be counted.
New York City will host multiple firework shows even as it cracks down on a 4,000 percent uptick in illegal fireworks, the mayor announced.
Horn-honking protesters created quite the din outside Gracie Mansion Monday night to express frustration with a boom in fireworks.
Video shows the man smiling moments before the firework explodes next to a man sleeping on a Harlem sidewalk.
Dozens of chickens appear to have had free range of a pill mill basement in The Bronx, prosecutors said.
"They are tried, they are stressed," Commissioner Dermot Shea said of NYPD cops. "And right now they feel under appreciated."
New York City saw 28 shootings last weekend and a 64 percent increase in shootings last month, according to the NYPD.
"Housing is healthcare," organizers said. "Right now it’s critical that every New Yorker is safely housed."
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Gov. Cuomo thanked New Yorkers for what they sacrificed to stop the spread of COVID-19. "Don't forget," he added, "tomorrow is Saturday."
"This is just a beginning to acknowledge this holiday," said Mayor Bill de Blasio. "But we have a lot more to do."
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“The Council does what the NYPD has failed to do," said Council Member Rory Lancman. "Police the police."
"Based on the really good indicators we've seen today," de Blasio said, "I'm very comfortable now saying we will start Phase 2 on Monday."