At the P.S. 33 elementary school in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, a poll supervisor attended to a registered voter, who was twice denied a ballot during the June 23 Democratic Part primary election. The voter waited over 11 hours to be able to cast an affidavit ballot due to missing pages for local elections and wrong information about the voter's party affiliation. Progress New York

As the Board of Elections tosses absentee ballots, a signaling that the Feds may countenance voter disenfranchisement

As the New York City Board of Elections is reportedly disqualifying a large number of absentee ballots cast, the U.S. Attorney’s Office remains mum.

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Bodies of people, who have died from the Coronavirus pandemic, have been stored in large refrigerator trucks outside of medical facilities. One such truck is parked on West 12th Street, near 7th Ave. South, in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan. Staff Photograph

Editorial : St. Vincent’s Hospital closing and the collapse of public health before Coronavirus

What role did hospital closings, like St. Vincent’s in Manhattan, have on the collapse of public health in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic ?

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