Tax day pushed to July, Amazon focuses on pandemic essentials, & more

By Emily Myers | March 19, 2020 - 10:30AM

The IRS is giving Americans a three-month reprieve on paying their taxes this year—the payment deadline for 2019 bills is now July 15 (NY Post)

New York City broadened the ban on evictions to include cases that were recently transmitted to a city marshal to execute (press release)

There are calls for StreetEasy to stop counting days on the market until the city works through the current shutdown (Bloomberg)

Amazon will stop accepting all products other than medical supplies and household staples to its warehouses amid coronavirus crisis (Business Insider)

Some credit card companies are waiving payments and fees amid the pandemic (USA Today)

Alternative side of the street parking is canceled until March 24th, as officials work to stop the spread of coronavirus (Gothamist)

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Emily Myers is a real estate writer and podcast host. As the former host of the Brick Underground podcast, she earned four silver awards from the National Association of Real Estate Editors. Emily studied journalism at the University of the Arts, London, earned an MA Honors degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh and lived for a decade in California.

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