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Verizon Scraps 'Non-Critical' Internet Repairs Amid Coronavirus
Verizon told customers Tuesday, "Our technicians will not be able to enter your home to install new services or do repair work."

Kathleen Culliton is regional manager of Patch's New York City bureau.
Verizon told customers Tuesday, "Our technicians will not be able to enter your home to install new services or do repair work."

"This virus is very good at what it does," said Gov. Andrew Cuomo. "It kills vulnerable people."
"People showing up in our hospitals who need a ventilator, that situation has improved a bit," de Blasio said. "That's very good news."
"It's my pleasure to serve you," a Bronx deli's social distancing sign reads. "But Ima need you to back the f--- up."
A Legal Aid Society lawsuit says the suspension of hearings has trapped accused parole violators in "the most dangerous place in the world."
"We know many New Yorkers plan to observe religious holidays," said Richard Carranza. "However, they will not be considered 'days off;'"
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New York City now has more than 2,600 people who have died.
"We just wanted safety measures in place,” said Tipsy worker Therese Whelan. “It just seemed way too much of a risk just to sell wine.”
A kitchen fire erupted at the Upper East Side cancer center early Saturday morning, the FDNY said.
The city reported 1,562 people had died from COVID-19 as of Thursday evening. By Friday, it was 1,867.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order Friday giving the state the authority to seize ventilators from institutions across New York.
Girl Scouts will be sending all donated cookies to New York City Hospitals, the organization announced Friday.
Military protocol and bureaucracy have made it near impossible to get patients on board the USNS Comfort, the New York Times reports.
All New Yorkers should cover their faces when they go outside, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday.
The Cuomo brothers brought some interesting comic relief to the New York Governor's daily press conference.
There is a 69 percent chance a major hurricane will land somewhere on the U.S. coastline between June and November, forecasters say.
New York State has just six days until it "burns through" its ventilator stock, the governor said.
The Queens neighborhood of Corona has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in New York City, the epicenter of the nation's outbreak.
Two new COVID-19 heat maps show confirmed cases, by range and percentage, in New York City zip codes.