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It’s our December donation drive. Your gift helps us. So please click here. So we’re expected to get the storm of the century tonight, with the heaviest accumulations and worst winds hitting just about the time when the subways shut down for unnecessary cleaning at 1 a.m. (Gothamist, NY Daily News, NY Post) Naturally, the mayor told everyone to avoid driving — then said he supports the overnight shutdown of the subway. The obvious contradiction was noticed by many reporters: Asked about o...

12 p.m. For the second day in a row, Mayor Bill de Blasio warned New Yorkers that the city may need to undergo a full shutdown of non-essential businesses given the severity of the coronavirus crisis. "We’re going to need to do some kind of shutdown in the weeks ahead, something that resembles the pause that we were in in the spring," de Blasio said, during his morning press conference. But although that decision rests with Governor Andrew Cuomo, the mayor on Tuesday did offer an opinion on t...