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Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech

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Mayor Doubles Down on Cuomo Restaurant/ Bar Warning

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City to Enter Limited COVID Phase IV Reopening Monday

By Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech
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Cuomo Announces 11 p.m. Curfew in New York City

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during a news conference for the outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at City Hall in the Manhattan borough of New York
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City Could Beginning Reopening In First Half of June

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Access Limited in City Parks, But Beaches Opening Soon

By Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech & Robert Pozarycki
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Childhood COVID Complication Hits 100 in New York City

By Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during a news conference for the outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at City Hall in the Manhattan borough of New York
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NYC Children With COVID-Related Inflammatory Condition Count Tops 50

By Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech
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De Blasio: NYC Could Reopen Nonessential Businesses in June

By Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech
A man who is living in the New York subway system sleeps in a relatively empty subway station as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in the subways of New York
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NYC to Move 1,000 Homeless into Hotels Each Week in May

By Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech
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Self-Swab Testing to Start at NYC Public Hospitals

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De Blasio Touts COVID-19 Progress, Though ICU Count Decline Modest

By Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at USTA Tennis Center indoor facility where portion will be converted into temporary hospital during coronavirus outbreak in New York
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City Ventilator Demand Stabilized Since Yesterday

By Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during a news conference for the outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at City Hall in the Manhattan borough of New York
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Increased Testing Shows Surge in NYC’s COVID-19 Infections

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Arts

  • Beverly Glenn-Copeland's latest release is called “Laughter In Summer." February LGBTQ music: Troye Sivan and Beverly Glenn-Copeland
  • Grammy Award-winning tenor Freddie Ballentine. At 92nd Street Y, ‘Our People’ delivers an operatic tribute to Black queer experiences
  • The culminating piece of the exhibit is a 14th century German statue borrowed from the Cleveland Museum of Art, depicting Jesus and John the Baptist in the style of a married couple. The plaque describes how medieval viewers would have seen their relationship as a form of marriage “with Jesus in the role of the groom” and one that “stretched gender roles and sexual identities.” The Met’s Cloisters Museum offers a delightedly queer-inclusive analysis of sexuality in the Middle Ages
  • After gradually rolling out episodes, the full second of "The Boyfriend" is now available on Netflix. A second date with ‘The Boyfriend’: Gay Japanese reality show returns to Netflix for Season 2
  • “Pillion," directed by Harry Lighton, opens Feb. 6th at the Angelika and AMC Lincoln Square. Dom and sub probe the limits of their feelings in ‘Pillion’

Crime

  • Bomb threats, sent via email, targeted the New York University campus on the morning of Jan. 22, the school announced. Anti-LGBTQ bomb threats target NYU, prompting NYPD to increase security
  • The person suspected of voicing anti-LGBTQ slurs and attacking an individual on a 6 train on Jan. 10. Man suffers anti-LGBTQ subway attack after kissing trans partner: police
  • Police tape surrounds a vehicle after its driver was shot by a U.S. immigration agent, according to local and federal officials, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 7, 2026. ‘They killed my wife’: Outrage follows fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis
  • Report details allegations of police harassment against LGBTQ New Yorkers
  • President Donald Trump said he commuted George Santos' prison sentence in a Truth Social post.Santos is back with a ‘large slice of humble pie’ following Trump’s commutation

Perspectives

  • Steven Love Menendez (second from right) with Randy Wicker (center) and park rangers in front of the flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument in 2022 — during the Biden administration. The Rainbow Flag and the heart and soul of Stonewall
  • A banner at the Reclaim Pride Coalition's Queer Liberation March. Four decades in, Black communities are still paying the highest price from HIV — and inaction is not an option
  • Mark Milano. Remembering Mark Milano, a committed activist in the fight against HIV/AIDS
  • A gender equitable city is a stronger New York for everyone
  • AIDS Walk New York in 2025. Forty years later, the unequal impact of HIV persists — and we refuse to accept it

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