New York lawmakers are set to weigh a bill that would increase penalties for mask-wearing creeps even as Gov. Kathy Hochul appears to have abandoned the effort she’d backed as the city saw a ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul ducked any mention of a clamored-for ban on wearing masks in public during her State of the State Tuesday — a notable omission that drew condemnation from a potential election ...

Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., made an urgent appeal for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to reinstate a ban on face masks, pointing to “sympathizers” of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) while doing so.

The bill, which is widely supported by Jewish advocacy groups, is partly a response to increases in masked antisemitic ...