The New York State Department of Labor is making it easier to apply for traditional Unemployment Insurance or the new COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. The online application doesn’t require a call to the Department of Labor. Governor Andrew Cuomo recognizes people are not only getting impatient about being out of work, they’re feeling cooped up and yearning for this all to be over…
Residents are also looking for businesses to start opening their doors again, doing what they are supposed to do. Naomi Streicher of Realty Teams in Pomona is eager for the real estate market to be opened up. Rockland’s county clerk has asked the governor to do that for the commercial and residential real estate markets as a way of boosting the economy. Streicher agrees…
Rockland County clerk Paul Piperato says real estate is primed to jump-start the economy…
Meanwhile, the total number of cases of coronavirus across the state is now around 248,000 and 14,300 deaths, and here in Rockland, based on state figures, there are almost 9,500 reported cases and 381 confirmed deaths.