New York was the national epicenter of the pandemic, and Governor Cuomo's "New York State on PAUSE" business shutdowns and other restrictions led, in short order, to the loss of nearly 2 million jobs in the first full month after the infection began spreading in the New York City area. Read More
Over the 10 days that Hochul has been in office, there has been no further progress on the Empire Center's record requests. Read More
Fewer than one in four New York City office workers are back in the office, according to a pair of datasets issued this week. Read More
One of the most urgent imperatives confronting soon-to-be Gov. Kathy Hochul will be getting real about the state’s pandemic response Read More
If an impeachment proceeding continues, one likely subject of charges will be the Cuomo administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic in nursing homes – about which the impeachment panel has already gathered hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. Based on the public record alone, there is ample evidence of serious wrongdoing. Read More
Some New York local governments are soliciting input from residents as they decide how to spend billions in pandemic emergency dollars Read More
Just three COVID data sets have been made fully available in the month since the Empire Center officially submitted 62 FOIL requests Read More
The quest for comprehensive data on New York's coronavirus pandemic hit a bureaucratic roadblock this week Read More