NYS Tax Department Reminds New Yorkers of Oct. 15 Deadline to File Income Tax Returns

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance have reminded New Yorkers of two important deadlines: Taxpayers who obtained a filing extension must submit their personal income tax returns on or before Thursday, October 15; and Some 538,000 New Yorkers who haven’t claimed the federal Economic Impact Payment that they’re eligible to receive from the IRS must do so by November 21. “With less than two weeks before the deadline for filing personal income tax returns on extension, we’re reminding taxpayers to take advantage of online guidance and free tax filing software available on our website,” said

By SÍLE MOLONEY

After the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and a federal judge extended deadlines to apply for stimulus payments under the CARES Act, the Legal Aid Society called on the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), and the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) to bolster outreach to those in custody to assist them with these applications. The need to help with such applications became essential and apparent in the wake of a federal ruling that the IRS had wrongly denied stimulus payments to persons because they were incarcerated. Under the new deadlines, paper applications

By KEITH LOPEZ

As a father of three, a husband, and the son of a mother who raised me on her own, I know what it means to care for people. Day in and day out, I care for the students and staff at my job as a porter at St. John’s University, work to put food on the table at my humble West Farms, Bronx apartment, and to make sure my kids have a safe bed to sleep in at night. Because I care so much, the thought of having, for four more years, a president who clearly doesn’t care

By AURÉOLE RIBES

On Sept. 17, the “2020 Virtual Healthy New York Summit,” took place. The aim of the summit was to examine the ways in which COVID-19 has and will affect New York State’s health care policies, innovation, and future. During the three-hour summit, health care decision-makers, politicians, and policy experts examined obstacles encountered to date in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, while also discussing solutions and suggested improvements to health care policy. Jon Lentz, editor-in-chief of City & State New York, opened the annual summit, emphasizing how the topic of health care policy is ever present, before introducing

By DAVID GREENE & SÍLE MOLONEY

Opponents of abortion arrived early on Saturday, Sept. 26, to Bronx Abortion GYN Services at 2070 Eastchester Road in the Indian Village section of the Bronx, but what was expected to be a single-issue protest quickly evolved into an all-out debate on a whole range of political topics and the upcoming presidential election. A handful of anti-abortion demonstrators quietly held signs across the street from the location while a separate group of nuns prayed a short distance away outside the clinic. A third group of pro-abortion activists stood in front of the clinic’s entrance, and provided safe passage to

By DAVID GREENE

A full week after New York City public schools opened for class for the first time in six months, on Tuesday, Sept. 29, “the new normal” included temperature checks before entering a building, smaller classrooms, and teachers rather than students moving from classroom to classroom. After the first week of her children’s school reopening, Norwood resident and mother, Heather Guerino, said, “Now the schools are taking more precautionary measures within [them], but they should have done that before the coronavirus.” She added, “The coronavirus has forced a lot of people to have a new way of life, a new

By DAVID GREENE & SÍLE MOLONEY

With one month to go before the 2020 presidential election, possibly the most hotly debated contest of modern times, news that President Donald J. Trump tested positive for the coronavirus was announced by the White House on Thursday evening, October 1 according to The Hill. Given the president’s apparent, past reluctance to support the science in terms of how best to contain the coronavirus, some Bronxites appear to have little sympathy for him following his diagnosis, while other Bronxites are quite demonstrative in their support for him. Belmont resident Rosa Velasquez said she believed the president would use

By SÍLE MOLONEY

On Thursday, October 1, 2020 at approximately 6.30 a.m., police responded to a 911 call regarding an aided infant inside of 1285 Washington Avenue, Morrisania Houses, in the Morrisania section of the Bronx, within the confines of the 42nd precinct, Police Service Area (PSA) #7. Upon arrival, officers observed a 7-month-old male baby unconscious and unresponsive, with no obvious signs of trauma observed. EMS also responded to the location and transported the aided infant to BronxCare Health System hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. The Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death. The identity of the deceased

By SÍLE MOLONEY

President Donald Trump’s doctors said during a press briefing on Oct. 3, that the president is being administered remdesivir, a drug trialed in the Bronx to treat patients with COVID-19, as a joint research initiative by Montefiore Health System and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Einstein/Montefiore was the first New York site to take part in what is an ongoing international drug treatment study. The first iteration of the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT) began in various locations on Feb. 21, though candidate recruitment only began in the Bronx in March. Remdesivir is described as an investigational, broad-spectrum