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New this afternoon from City & State New York

* Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would seek to reduce the size of the state budget he proposed in January and to gain the authority to make rolling cuts on a quarterly basis as New York grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, Newsday reports.
 
* Cuomo said New York’s hospitals have “enough” protective gear for the moment – and was immediately contradicted by front-line nurses in New York City, who said they’re already experiencing shortages, the New York Post reports.
 
* State officials are scouting additional temporary hospital sites in New York City, with one already open in the city and three others in surrounding counties, with a goal of adding a new 1,000-bed medical center in each of the five boroughs, the Queens Daily Eagle reports.
 
* The number of people filing unemployment claims has nearly quintupled in New York, totalling 66,062 in one week, as businesses shutter across the state and country in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the Times Union reports.
 
* Starting Monday, 660 New York City cops will check parks, pedestrian plazas and other places people gather, such as health care facilities, supermarkets and drugstores, to make sure people are at least six feet apart, the Daily News reports.