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Potentially dangerous coronavirus misinformation has spread from continent to continent like the pandemic itself, forcing the world’s largest tech companies to take unprecedented action to protect public health.

The union for transit workers in New York says it has reached an agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to give families of workers who have died with coronavirus a $500,000 death benefit payment.

The NYPD wants to find two robbers who threatened a man with a knife before taking his money aboard a subway train. Both suspects were wearing face masks presumably to protect themselves from the coronavirus at the time of the incident.

Three NYPD officers succumbed to the coronavirus between Sunday and Monday, according to the department. Det. Jeffrey Scalf and Det. Raymond Abear died on Monday. Aux. Capt. Mohamed Rahaman died a day earlier. NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea made the announcement via Twitter.

A NYPD Traffic Enforcement Agent has died after contracting coronavirus, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea announced on Sunday.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced Saturday that he has signed an executive order directing NJ Transit and all private carriers to cut the capacity for riders on all trains, buses light rail vehicles and paratransit vehicles to 50 percent. 

The coronavirus pandemic that has crippled big-box retailers and mom and pop shops worldwide may be making a dent in illicit business, too.

Detective Jack Polimeni and School Safety Agent Joseph Donofrio have died of COVID-related causes.

As New York City staggered through its deadliest week of the pandemic, its emergency response system and army of operators, dispatchers and ambulance crews is being pushed to the brink.

Apple and Google have launched a major joint effort to leverage smartphone technology to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

Transit officials say they’re working harder than ever to protect their own workers amid the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 7,000 New Yorkers in just a few weeks.

Before the pandemic swept in, America's biggest, loudest city often lived up to its own hype. Then the coronavirus all but shut it down, claiming lives from the Bronx to the Battery and beyond. Now the hush, whether at midnight or midday, is broken mostly by the wail of ambulances.

Travis Kessel loves his career in emergency services but now he worries about the toll the new coronavirus is taking on him and his colleagues.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that people should stay 6 feet (2 meters) apart. But even though ridership has plummeted in the city, making jam-packed trains and buses the exception rather than the rule, passengers aren't always guaranteed even 6 inches (15 centimeters).

Former NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill is cutting through the red tape to get New York City’s hospitals protective equipment as quickly and as fairly as possible.

A trail of damaged vehicles was left behind along 11th Ave. after a sports car driver went on a rampage.