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Giddyap: The iconic horse-drawn carriages has returned to Central Park following a six-month corona virus-driven hiatus .“The lights are going to come back on in New York City, and we are going to be a part of it,” driver Colm McKeever, a 31-year veteran, told The News on Thursday. A dozen carriages resumed rides for city dwellers and tourists on Saturday. Each driver will take a rapid results COVID-19 test before the carriages roll into the park. Plans are also underway to ensure equine social distancing. Nighttime
nightmare: A Queens mother of three was killed Wednesday by a stray bullet that whizzed right through her bedroom window. Bertha Arriaga, 43, peered out her third-floor apartment window in Jackson Heights at around 12:45 a.m., roused by noises from below. Moments later, her 14-yearold son rushed to her room and found his mom mortally wounded. “She was the best wife, the best mom,” said her husband, Jorge Aguilar, hours after his wife of 19 years died in the city’s latest spout of pandemic violence. The alleged gunman, Issam Elabbar, 31 was arrested late Friday and charged with murder, police said.
Costly calls: The FDNY wants to jack up the cost of an ambulance run by $125 and $215 depending on the type of service provided, according to a notice in the City Record on Thursday. Medical calls that require basic life support services will increase from $775 to $900, while advanced life support services — or the need for paramedics — will rise from $1,310 to $1,525, the proposed changes state. When a defibrillator is used, intubations are performed and intravenous drugs are administered, the price will jump up from $1,420 to $1,625.
Waiting game: All talk, no action. Days after Mayor de Blasio vowed the city would get in touch with the relatives of a Human Resources Administration worker who died of coronavirus, the family has heard nothing. De Blasio claimed his administration would get to the bottom of the fight for Donald Speight’s pension on Tuesday, but Speight’s sister Michelle said they haven’t heard a peep. “It doesn’t take much to call someone or email,” she told The News. Speight died of COVID days after he started working from home in April. His daughters and sister say the lung cancer patient’s earlier requests to work from home were ignored.