Andrew Cuomo

He was criticised in recent months for advising his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation on Aug. 10 over a barrage of sexual harassment allegations in a fall from grace a year after he was widely hailed nationally for his detailed daily briefings and leadership during some of the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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U.S. President Joe Biden joined leading Democrats on Aug. 3 in calling on powerful New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign after an independent investigation concluded that he sexually harassed multiple women.

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The new strategy will treat firearms violence as a public health crisis.
"We have gone from COVID to an epidemic of gun violence. More people are dying from gun violence than from COVID," Cuomo told a news conference.

Fireworks were set off in New York City and across the state to celebrate the fact that more than 70% of adults have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

This allowed the last restrictions to be lifted, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday.

In NYack County, many watched and thought of everything New York faced since the pandemic began more than a year ago.

First launched in Ohio, cash prize incentives to get people vaccinated are taking off in other U.S. states to boost a slowing Covid-19 shot campaign.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced a week ago that five adults who get vaccinated will each win $1 million in the state's "Vax-a-Million" lottery.

Broadway is not due to return until September but New York's longest-running play is already back thanks to its indomitable lead who has played the same role over 13,500 times.

Catherine Russell, 65, is the driving force behind "Perfect Crime," a rollicking whodunit that has been on Big Apple billboards since 1987.

"We will be back!" a dozen singers proclaimed in the middle of New York's Times Square, in a pop-up event commemorating the one-year anniversary of Broadway going dim. A clear sense of optimism filled the air - despite the "Closed" signs still darkening the doors of nearby theaters.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo confronted a stunning series of defections on March 12 amid allegations of sexual harassment that left the high-profile Democrat fighting for his political survival, angry and alone.

NEW YORK: Cynthia Nixon, the Sex and the City"actress running for New York governor, kept her political dreams alive Thursday by collecting enough signatures to contest the Democratic Party primary against the two-time establishment incumbent.