New York Headlines

• The U.S. Sought Passenger Data, but Airlines Said No: Live Business Updates

  (by for The New York Times 18 minutes ago)
  Live updates on stock market and business news during the coronavirus outbreak.
  
  

• Coronavirus Live Updates: Grim Models Project High U.S. Toll

  (by for The New York Times 20 minutes ago)
  The White House released models showing the future course of the disease, and the C.D.C. is reviewing its guidance on wearing masks as new data suggests many people with no symptoms are infecting others.
  
  

• Dean Skelos seeks early release over coronavirus fears, but prosecutors push back

  (by Ben Feuerherd for The New York Post 27 minutes ago)
  Former New York state senator Dean Skelos is seeking to end his federal prison sentence early because of fears over coronavirus — but prosecutors are arguing that he may well be safer behind bars than heading back to New York. Skelos filed a sealed emergency motion seeking to finish his term in home confinement, according...
  
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• Help Is Arriving, but N.Y.C. Needs More, Mayor Says: Live Updates

  (by for The New York Times 38 minutes ago)
  Coronavirus cases in New York State topped 75,000, including the governor’s brother, and 1,550 people have died.
  
  

• Help Is Arriving, but N.Y.C. Needs More, Mayor Says: Live Updates

  (by for The New York Times 38 minutes ago)
  Coronavirus cases in New York State topped 75,000, including the governor’s brother, and 1,550 people have died.
  
  

• NYC paramedic says coronavirus patients brought to hospitals ‘to die’

  (by Carl Campanile for The New York Post 57 minutes ago)
  “We’re pretty much bringing patients to the hospital to die.” That’s how city paramedic Megan Pfeiffer summed up the increasingly grim local coronavirus situation to The Post, while described her grueling work as a first-line emergency worker treating patients in Queens while responding to 911 calls. “It’s been crazy the past few days,” Pfeiffer, 31,...
  
  

• Cuomo: No legal weed for New York in state budget, but reforming bail is

  (by Bernadette Hogan for The New York Post an hour ago)
  ALBANY — New York lawmakers’ plans to legalize pot have gone up in smoke, Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed Wednesday just hours ahead of the midnight deadline for the state budget. “Not likely! Too much, too little time,” Cuomo told reporters, killing all hope that legislation legalizing recreational marijuana would soon become state law. “We’re not...
  
  

• 40% of N.Y. Tenants May Not Pay Rent This Month. What Happens Then?

  (by Matthew Haag for The New York Times an hour ago)
  Many unemployed tenants won’t be able to pay April rent. There will be a domino effect on landlords, real estate industry officials said.
  
  

• How Christian Siriano Turned His Fashion House Into a Mask Factory

  (by Rachel Syme for The New Yorker an hour ago)
  Rachel Syme writes about the fashion designer Christian Siriano’s effort to make face masks for hospitals in need during the coronavirus pandemic.
  

• How 3-D Printers Are Helping to Fight the Coronavirus

  (by Sue Halpern for The New Yorker 5 hours ago)
  Sue Halpern reports on efforts from health-care workers, designers, engineers, and fabricators to produce life-saving equipment to help coronavirus patients and medical workers.
  

• A ‘Wartime Factory’ in Brooklyn Is Fighting Coronavirus

  (by Corey Kilgannon for The New York Times 6 hours ago)
  The old Navy Yard’s manufacturers, including printers and distillers, have pivoted to making urgently needed face shields and hand sanitizer.
  
  

• Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders

  (by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for The New Yorker 1 day, 1 hour ago)
  Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes about how the Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s policy proposals are especially apt amid the current coronavirus crisis.