Against this backdrop, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, in a letter last month to housing authority officials, said he had revised the department's rules for how officers patrol up and down inside the public-housing high-rises - something known in police language as vertical patrols.
Earlier this week, the US state department revised its travel advice to say that it "strongly recommends that US citizens remaining in Syria depart immediately".
Last week, the department revised its estimate of growth in gross domestic product for the final quarter of last year to 1.4percentt from 0.2percentt.
On Friday morning, hours before Yellen's Q&A session, the US commerce department revised up its gross domestic product figured for the first quarter.
Three years later, the department revised its estimate; the catch could be increased not by a factor of ten but by a factor of forty, to two billion tons a year.
The department revised durable goods orders for November to show a much smaller 0.3 percent fall rather than the previously reported 1.3 percent drop.
Under the rules, which the city's health department revised after Judge Holwell struck down an earlier version last fall, any chain with at least 15 outlets nationwide would have to display calorie counts on menu boards, menus or food tags.
In addition, the department revised its estimates for the previous 12 months to show that employers shed 400,000 more jobs than originally calculated, pushing the total closer to four million.
Last month the US Commerce department revised US growth upwards to its fastest pace since late 2011.
The department revised its rules on shooting into vehicles in February 2015, and the policy specifically bans officers from shooting at a car when a car is the only danger.
The task force also revised the pediatric department admissions form to include a standing written order for HIV testing as well as a section for documentation of test results.
