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Andrew Yang, a New York City Democratic mayoral candidate, speaks out against anti-Asian hate crimes during a news conference at the National Action Network, Thursday, March 18, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

NYC mayoral candidates denounce hate crimes targeting Asians

Associated Press

New York to lift curfew for casinos, cinemas — but not bars

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

FILE - This file photo from Saturday March 16, 2019, shows Sharon Keely, left, of Dublin, viewing the St. Patrick's Day Parade along Fifth Avenue in New York. A largely virtual St. Patrick's Day is planned for New York City on Wednesday, March 17, 2021, one year after the annual parade celebrating Irish heritage became one of the city's first coronavirus casualties. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

St. Patrick’s Day to be largely virtual in NYC for 2nd year

Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: New York

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at a vaccination site on Monday, March 8, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

Andrew Cuomo’s favorability drops to lowest level amid harassment claims, probes

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo removes his mask during a visit to a COVID-19 vaccination site, Monday, March 15, 2021, at the State University of New York in Old Westbury. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, Pool)

Bill de Blasio calls for new probe of Andrew Cuomo allegedly politicizing COVID-19 vaccines

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing more pressure from fellow Democrats to resign from office. Six women have come forward with sexual harassment and misconduct allegations against him. (Associated Press)

More Democrats pressure Andrew Cuomo to resign from office

By Tom Howell Jr. and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Visitors to the Edge, an outdoor observation deck 1100 feet above the ground, look at the lights of Manhattan, March 2, 2021, in New York. After the virus descended on New York, the only sounds in the streets were wailing ambulance sirens. A year after the pandemic began, the nation’s largest metropolis -- with a lifeblood based on round-the-clock hustle and bustle, push and pull -- is adapting and showing new life. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

After long pandemic year, a changed New York shows renewal

By DEEPTI HAJELA - Associated Press

In this Saturday, April 18, 2020 photo, mortician Cordarial O. Holloway, foreground left, funeral director Robert L. Albritten, foreground right, place a casket into a hearse in Dawson, Ga. In a Feb. 25-March 1, 2021 poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, about 1 in 5 Americans say they lost a relative or close friend to the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

One very jumbled year: Glimpses of AP’s pandemic journalism

By AYA ELAMROUSSI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, May 10, 2020 file photo, the Rev. Fabian Fabian Arias offers a blessing over the head of a family member after leading an in-home funeral service for Graciela Ruiz Martinez who died of COVID-19, in the Queens borough of New York. For the first time during the pandemic, Arias performed funeral services in private homes — donning a surgical mask and gloves to join the mourning families, starting that weekend. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Faith leaders’ year of pandemic: grief, solace, resilience

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and DAVID CRARY and MARIAM FAM - Associated Press

FILE - This Monday, March 8, 2021, file photo shows New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaking at a vaccination site in New York. A sixth woman has come forward alleging that Cuomo inappropriately touched her late last year, during an encounter at the governor's mansion. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool, File)

Top Dems call on Cuomo to resign amid harassment allegations

By MARINA VILLENEUVE and STEVE PEOPLES and MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

CORRECTS TO BROTHER NOT UNCLE OF DANIEL PRUDE - FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2020, file photo, Joe Prude, right, brother of Daniel Prude, and Daniel's nephew Armin, stand with a picture of Daniel Prude in Rochester, N.Y. In a decision announced Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, a grand jury voted not to charge officers shown on body camera video holding Daniel Prude down naked and handcuffed on a city street last winter until he stopped breathing. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Probe faults mayor, officials for keeping Prude death secret

By MICHAEL R. SISAK - Associated Press

Mauricio Vivet poses for a photo with his violin at home, Dona Marta slum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, March 6, 2021. Vivet earned a living by playing at events and giving music lessons. He moved out of the neighborhood and planned to open a music studio. COVID-19 put a stop to all that. Vivet now struggles just to pay for food. He left his apartment and moved back to his mother's house in the favela. Vivet's biggest fear is not having money to provide for his 4-year-old son, Angelo. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

As pandemic enters 2nd year, voices of resilience emerge

By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press

Authorities stand around a 1.5 square meter colorful mosaic dating back to 40 A.D. and belonging to the flooring of Caligula’s lavish ceremonial ships, that was found thanks to a joint police operation in the rooms of a Manhattan house and returned to the museum of Nemi, near Rome, Thursday, March 11, 2021. In September 2017, the department for cultural heritage protection of the Italian Carabinieri police, in collaboration with New York district attorney, managed to sequester the mosaic from the house of an Italian-American woman who brought it in the states illegally many decades earlier. (AP Photo/Paolo Santalucia)

Emperor’s mosaic displayed in Italy after stint as NYC table

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA and NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: New York

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Officials say New York variant of COVID-19 spreading in city

By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press

CORRECTS DAY OF CONCERT - FILE - Patti Smith attends a special screening of &quot;Pavarotti&quot; at the iPic Theater in New York on May 28, 2019. Smith performed a mini-concert at the Brooklyn Museum on Tuesday, March 9, to honor photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and also adding her voice to a series of pop-up events that represent the city’s first baby steps toward the return of live indoor performances. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Patti Smith returns to singing live with Brooklyn concert

By MARK KENNEDY - Associated Press

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo greets people after speaking at a vaccination site on Monday, March 8, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

New Yorkers 60 and older can get COVID-19 vaccines this week

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

The Seven Springs, a property owned by former U.S. President Donald Trump, is covered in snow, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in Mount Kisco, N.Y. The estate, a 213-acre swath of nature surrounding a Georgian-style mansion, is a subject of two state investigations in New York: a criminal probe by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and a civil inquiry by state Attorney General Letitia James. Both investigations focus on whether Trump manipulated the property’s value to reap greater tax benefits from an environmental conservation arrangement he made while running for president in 2016. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Claimed value of sleepy NY estate could come to haunt Trump

By MICHAEL R. SISAK - Associated Press

This image shows part of a Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021 Instagram post by Jeff Klein of Austin, Texas, holding his COVID-19 vaccination card. The 44-year-old musician notes he was given a shot as a volunteer at a mass vaccination hub at the Alamodome in San Antonio. ”I definitely mentioned it on purpose, because I didn’t want people to get the wrong idea,” (Jeff Klein via AP)

Guilt, envy, distrust: Vaccine rollout breeds mixed emotions

By CANDICE CHOI - Associated Press