“There is a whole wave of attacking elderly people in different ways, one New York legislator says. On March 19, 2021, hundreds of people packed into Union Square during an Asian American Federation peace vigil following the shootings in Atlanta. Hiram Alejandro Durán/ THE CITY By CHRISTINE CHUNG, THE CITY, and Weihua Li
The security videos of the March incident stunned New Yorkers and resonated far beyond. They showed an older Asian woman, shoved to the ground, then kicked in the body and stomped in the head by an assailant.
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Older Asians Face ‘A Whole Wave’ of Hate Hidden in Official NYPD Stats
Even as the NYPD investigated few anti-Asian bias incidents as hate crimes, its records show a vast number of cases closed without action with the greatest increase involving older Asian New Yorkers. Ariel Goodman and Michelle Pitcher contributed reporting.
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The security videos of the March incident stunned New Yorkers and resonated far beyond. They showed an older Asian woman, shoved to the ground, then kicked in the body and stomped in the head by an assailant.
More than 70% of all COVID-19 cases in New York City might be linked to variants and could explain why daily infections remain at a high plateau, report finds
In January, 10% of all New York City samples submitted to global genome sequencing database GISAID were linked to variants
By March, that figure shot up to more than 70%, mostly the NYC variant, known as B.1.526, the UK variant, known as B.1.1.7
Fewer than 100 samples of B.1.526 were being sequenced per week at the end of January, which increased to more than 1,200 per week as of late March
B.1.1.7 accounted for less than 100 samples sequenced by beginning of February but now makes up more than 600 samples
Firefighters found a smoke alarm inside the multifamily house on 157th St. near 46th Ave. in East Flushing after it caught ablaze at about 1:10 a.m., but it wasn’t activated, according to the FDNY.