Weather: ☁️☔ Partly cloudy, then rainy, with highs in the lower 50s.
It's Friday in New York City, where flu season is not over.
A record 4,546 New Yorkers were hospitalized with the flu as of the last week of December, and while cases have since dipped, Dr. Michelle Morse, the city's acting health commissioner, said flu season is unpredictable and could extend into May.
“It's not too late for New Yorkers to receive their flu vaccine,” Morse said. “While the current flu strain has developed mutations, the currently available, updated flu shot has still been shown to prevent serious complications and hospitalizations.”
Here's what else is happening:
Police said an NYPD officer shot and killed a man who'd barricaded himself inside a room with a weapon at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital yesterday evening.
Police also shot and killed a man during a confrontation in the West Village last night after NYPD officials said he pointed a gun at officers that turned out to be fake.
A new audit identified inefficiencies in a key New York City rental assistance program that, if fixed, could free up extra money for Mayor Mamdani to cover rents for more tenants.
A federal bankruptcy judge yesterday rejected Mamdani's attempt to delay the sale of thousands of rent-stabilized apartments.
Tenant leaders had hoped Mamdani could stop the buildings from being purchased "by another set of slumlords."
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said yesterday that federal immigration officers have arrested 54 people in New York in recent months as part of a crackdown on the Dominican American Trinitarios gang.
Steven Spielberg, who officially became a New York City resident this month, has already had Mayor Mamdani over to his apartment for an off-the-books meeting.
Mayor Mamdani named New York City’s first-ever deputy mayor for economic justice — a role he says will be business leaders’ point of contact — while opting not to appoint a deputy mayor for economic development, a role that's been in place since at least the Koch administration.
City lawmakers are poised to take the first steps in implementing the mayor's dramatic plan to revamp how the city responds to mental health emergencies.
The Department of Transportation said it would restart the planning process for a redesign of 31st Street in response to a judge’s ruling blocking the previous version of the project.
“It’s for our betterment. It’s for a better future,” said Elizabeth Rodriguez, a 58-year-old asylum-seeker regarding Maduro's capture. “It’s for Venezuela to recover and return to being the Venezuela that we had more than 30 years ago.”
