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NEW YORK — New York will launch a citywide program to provide mothers with free access to doulas, Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday, deploying a relatively small infantry of childbirth experts in high-need areas before expanding across the five boroughs.

New York city’s mayor will announce Thursday that he’s exempting athletes and performers from the city’s vaccine mandate for private workers, a move that will allow Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving to play home games and unvaccinated baseball players take the field when their season begins

He said sports teams will have to wait their turn for the vaccine mandate to be loosened.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is preparing to lift requirements that children under age 5 wear face masks in school

New York’s governor ended the state’s mask mandates earlier this month

During a joint news conference after a private meeting, Adams credited Lightfoot as a mayor who understands the need to focus simultaneously on “intervention and prevention.”

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams’ newly minted health commissioner argued Friday that the city should indefinitely maintain its mask mandate for kids younger than 5 years old, striking a more cautious tone than his boss who recently signaled he wants to scrap the restriction sooner rather than later.

Eric Adams says you may have to upgrade your phone if you want to record the police, because you'll need to do so from a distance.

‘In addition to all the dangers that unsheltered residents face, we now have a cold-blooded killer on the loose,’ New York and DC mayors say in joint statement