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We’re seeing a big spike in anxiety and panic.” Daniel Cook, licensed mental health couselor and director of Embodied Mind NYC

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New York’s mental health professionals are on the front lines of coronavirus response BY JENNIFER DOHERTY

Each year, one in five New Yorkers experiences some form of mental illness, according to data from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. That number has skyrocketed this year as residents grapple with the sudden lifestyle changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a number of mental health professionals interviewed by Straus News. Their message: Help is available, even when social distancing means logging in from your own couch. “We’re seeing a big spike in anxiety and panic, both among those who might have a propensity towards more panic states, and those who haven’t experienced that,” said

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New York is now the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., and life in our crowded metropolis is unlike anything we have ever known before

INSIDE LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER “Amid all this upheaval, one thing remains unchanged: our total commitment to local news, our readers and the community,“ writes Jeanne Straus. p. 2

BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM

Not long ago, New York as it is now would have been unimaginable: Times Square without tourists. Empty streets and subway cars. Previously packed bars closed for happy hour. Millions of New Yorkers holed up in their apartments, waiting out a public health crisis that has shown no sign of letting up. New York City has quickly become the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, with one-third of the country’s confirmed cases. As of Tuesday morning, some 15,000 New Yorkers have tested positive for COVID-19. That number represents nearly 60 percent of the state’s cases, which totaled 25,665 on Tuesday, with 210 dead. In Manhattan, 2,646 cases have been confirmed. All of these numbers are expected to grow. “For a disease that most of us had never heard of a few months ago, that seemed to just have the smallest presence in our city just weeks ago, it now has become the dominant reality and we’re all trying to make sense of that together,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference Monday evening.

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crowded.” A particular focus will be the city’s parks where larger groups continued to get together over the weekend, much to the ire of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Any groups will be broken up and asked to disperse. If the city finds that people can’t follow the rules, the mayor said stricter rules regarding parks and playground may need to be enforced. “It really is incumbent upon all New Yorkers, to do your damnedest to live by this new reality,” de Blasio said.

The dominant reality has forced the city and state into implementing measures that have turned the most densely populated city in the country into a place where public spaces are largely vacant. The mayor is even deploying the NYPD and other city agencies to ensure that’s the case. “We’re New Yorkers: We’re used to crowds, we’re used to being close together. Not anymore,” said de Blasio. “We’re not going to allow crowds to form. We’re not going to allow lines where people are tightly packed next to each other. We’re not gonna allow any indoor space to get overcrowded. We’re not gonna allow outdoor spaces to get over-

‘Defensive Shopping’ Trips to the grocery store have become an anxiety-inducing task in

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AMERICA’S GOVERNOR STEPS UP Since he has begun holding daily press conferences about the coronavirus pandemic, the 62-year-old governor of New York has vaulted to a status he has never enjoyed before. p. 5

PART OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD FABRIC At a time of crisis, praise for Mani Market on the Upper West Side. p. 5

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DEAR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, Together we face the unparalleled and devastating challenges presented by the coronavirus crisis. At Straus News we are working hard to keep readers informed, community leaders connected, and businesses solvent. Straus News has been in the communications business since 1943. We’ve come through wars and recessions, shocks and economic upheaval – and we’ve learned a few lessons along the way. One of those lessons? This is why we exist. In uncertain times like these, readers turn to a news source they can trust – that strives to report faithfully and fairly, that provides genuine understanding and boots-on-theground local news you can’t get anywhere else. Over the past two weeks, we’ve launched a daily local coronavirus update that is hugely popular with PHOTO: LYN HUGHES

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG STATS FOR THE WEEK

ROBBERY SUSPECT STRUCK AND KILLED BY TRAIN A cell phone robbery in the subway led to a tragic accident, police said. According to police, at 3:50 a.m. on Thursday, Mar. 12, a man was sleeping on a northbound 2 train when a man took his cell phone as the train pulled into the Canal St. Station. The victim followed the suspect off the train, police said, and when the suspect ﬂed on a catwalk he was struck by a northbound train and killed. He was pronounced dead at 4:10 a.m. by EMS workers. The phone was a Samsung valued at $600.

$64K ARMED STICKUP Two men were robbed at gunpoint in front of 151 Wooster St., police said. According to police, at 4 a.m. on Tuesday, Mar 10, the men were approached by two suspects, one of whom displayed a black ﬁrearm and said, “Give me everything; don’t play with me!” Both victims handed over their belongings and the suspects ﬂed south on Wooster St. Police searched the area but did not locate the suspects. The items stolen included two chains valued at $1,800, $ 5,500 cash, an iphone 11

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Pro Max valued at $1,200, a Rolex watch worth $30,000, two diamond chains priced at $4,000 and two diamond pendants selling for $6,000, making a total stolen of $64,700.

SMASH AND GRAB According to police, at 8 p.m. on Friday, Mar. 13, someone broke the front glass of the NY Gifts store at 50 Broadway, reached into the window and removed items from a display. The stolen goods included six Nikon cameras totaling $2,335, three Canon cameras amounting to $1,415, two Sony cameras worth $690, a GoPro camera selling for $305, six cell phones totaling $3,710, three camera lenses priced at $3,255 and two projectors worth

$500, making a total stolen of $12,210.

CAT BURGLAR STRIKES A burglar sneaked into a sleeping man’s apartment and removed some valuable belongings, police said. At 40 minutes after midnight on Wednesday, Mar. 11, a man entered a bedroom inside 144 Sullivan St. between using a door connecting the bedroom to a boiler room, while the 26-year-old male resident was asleep. The suspect took items belonging to the victim before leaving and entering the adjoining building at 146 Sullivan St., where he removed a package from a hallway. The items stolen included an Apple laptop valued at $1,500, an Omega watch worth $5,000, a

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Burberry timepiece priced at $800, a Raymond Weil watch selling for $1,000, an Apple Watch priced at $500, a Beats Pill XL speaker valued at $300 and a Burberry wallet and cash totaling $240, making a haul of $9,340.

VUITTON GONE A quartet of shoplifting suspects helped themselves to some luxury luggage. Police said that at 4:40 p.m. on Monday, Mar. 9, two men and two women entered the Louis

Vuitton store at 122 Greene St. removed items from a store display and ﬂed the location in a four-door Nissan sedan with New Jersey plates K92LDX, heading west on Prince St. Police couldn’t locate the suspects in the area, but the vehicle was seen at 4:48 p.m. heading outbound in the right lane of the Holland Tunnel. The items stolen included a Keepall bag valued at $2,790 and a vertical soft trunk worth $4,200, making a total stolen of $6,990.

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‘AMERICA’S GOVERNOR’ STEPS UP PUBLIC EYE

BY JON FRIEDMAN

Andrew Cuomo has become America’s Governor. Since he has begun holding daily press conferences about the coronavirus pandemic, the 62-year-old governor of New York has vaulted to a status he has never enjoyed before. In fact, it’s fair to say that not since New York mayor Rudy Giuliani managed to ease a city’s panic in the wake of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 has any politician received such widespread accolades. Left-leaning MSNBC host Joy Reid tweeted: “Just gonna say it. [Cuomo] is really good at this. His leadership ability in this coronavirus crisis, and the usefulness of these press conferences are just putting Donald Trump to shame.” On the right, Meghan McCain, the television personality and daughter of the late one-time Republican presidential candidate John McCain, tweeted that she is “incredibly impressed” with Cuomo’s performance. Even former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, a vocal supporter of President Trump and the one-time governor of South Carolina, tweeted on the morning of March 21: “Confession: I look forward to watching Gov. Cuomo’s press conference every day. I get a kick out of how he talks about govt issues and then goes into a therapy session.”

Plain Talk and Tough Talk They and many more onlookers agree that the key is Cuomo’s combination of plain-talk and tough-talk, his pragmatism as well as a healthy dose of compassion for the people who are suﬀering health and ﬁnancial

Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his March 22, 2020 press conference. Photo: Mike Groll /Ofﬁce of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo via Flickr hardships. Together, it spells empathy. Cuomo is not only talking. He’s taking actions that will help improve and even save people’s lives. “I know he’s helping out with student debt, which is helpful,” observed Julianne Mosher a local journalist and a 2016 college graduate. Cuomo “knows how scary and important this is He’s doing all the right things to maintain order.” Life has changed drastically as fear of the outbreak spreads. We now look warily at strangers on the street and maintain our distance from them. We are setting personal-best records for washing our hands. We mourn the newly dead and live in constant fear that we and our loved ones will be next. It will take a while before we return to life as usual, whatever usual will be. Meanwhile, Cuomo has become a national phenomenon. Well beyond New York State, people are noticing his integrity and strength. “Cuomo has done everything you would want a leader to do: shown empathy, worked on the quickest way to actually get results and be authoritative without being a

bully,” said Laurie Goldberg, a public relations executive in Los Angeles. “And he has taken responsibility.” He has prompted the whole nation – especially his New York constituents – watching via cable news coverage of his press brieﬁngs, to applaud his can-do spirit and resoluteness. Most amazing, journalists, perhaps with tongues stuck deep in cheeks, suggest that Cuomo’s frequent presence on television has catapulted the man with the droopy eyelids, who often seems to speak in a gravelly ﬂat voice that borders on a monotone, to the classic American pop-culture fable: the sex symbol. The New York Post opined that women were “crushing on” Cuomo. The Website Jezebel published a story with this headline: “Help! I think I’m in love with Andrew Cuomo???”

New Status Cuomo’s new exalted status comes at an opportune time for him. Just before the panic began, Cuomo was getting heat in the wake of the exit of the popular subway czar and “Train Daddy,“ Andy Byford, the president of the New York City Transit Authority from January 2018 to this past Feb. 21. In earlier times, New York state residents carped about Cuomo’s handling of the education system and contracting policies, among other factors.

Will It Last? These days, Cuomo is likely too busy to take time to savor his press clippings, much less read or acknowledge them. His burst of popularity sparks an inevitable question: Will the good vibes last? Or will the public turn on Cuomo at some point? Will the laughing gas of adulation

eventually and inevitably wear oﬀ and will the pain return? Cuomo has been anything but a touchy-feely governor, even in good times. We seldom see his lighter side, though he did reveal a touch of it during a recent, playful interview with his brother, CNN host Chris Cuomo. Of course, being called “America’s Mayor” has not worked out well for the evercontroversial Giuliani. Cuomo, a consummate politician – whose father was the legendary New York Governor, Mario Cuomo – will seek to safeguard his public image. If he ever had aspirations to run for the presidency, he will no doubt shoot up the Democratic Party’s short list of preferred candidates. Someday, there will be a “ﬂattening of the curve” (to quote an awful public-servant phrase that has crept into our normal syntax) and then this crisis will pass into history, along with 9/11, the assassination of JFK and Pearl Harbor.

Courage and Leadership When that happens, Gov. Cuomo will become another rather mundane public oﬃcial. But New Yorkers, at the very least, will never forget his courage and leadership. Or his faith in their own courage and leadership. “America is America because we overcome adversity and challenges,“ he said during his press conference on Sunday, March 22. “That’s how we were born. That’s what we’ve done all our life. We overcome challenges and this is a period of challenge for this generation. And that’s what has always made America great and that’s what going to make this generation great. I believe that to the bottom of my soul.”

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Kudos to Mani Market at 697 Columbus Avenue and West 94 Street in Manhattan. While many people in this area who should know better line up (at profoundly too-close distances to one another) a block away from here to pick over the few chips, dips and canned corn at Trader Joe’s, or head to Whole Foods three blocks north with mixed results, Mani - a small independent grocer - has been open longer hours during the coronavirus crisis. Mani has replenished stocks of essential food products that actually can be used in cooking and sustenance to make tasty, nutritious meals. There are vegetables, fresh fruit, Italian pasta, dried fruit (wash and then steam it for delicious results), nuts, olive oil,

coffee, yogurt, eggs, cured meat and fish, fresh bread and hard cheeses for grating. I have sung Mani’s praises before, and now the market rises to the challenge again. I encourage you to help them thrive so they can help you thrive. And remember, when the crisis subsides, that you actually ate better (in terms of health and flavor) than what the big stores sell. Continue to keep Mani a part of the neighborhood fabric. Two additional requests: take a plastic bag as you enter the store and place it over the hand you will use to handle all items. Then, when you line up to pay, stay six feet behind the person in front of you and ask the person behind you to do the same. You won’t get to the cashier any quicker if you crowd together. Fred Plotkin is the author of six cookbooks and is the opera columnist for WQXR. He has lived on the Upper West Side since he was ten.

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THE ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIAS FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAM. Caring for a family member who has trouble with thinking and memory can be extremely challenging. So challenging, in fact, that caregivers may feel overwhelmed, struggling to maintain their own health and well-being.

Daniel Cook, a licensed mental health counselor and director of Embodied Mind NYC in lower Manhattan. “With the disruption of people’s day-to-day lives, their routines, their resources, let alone the potential of becoming sick and what that might also be bringing up for folks.” Cook made the decision last week to move all sessions at his practice to remote platforms, a choice that allows him and his colleagues to continue their work without spreading coronavirus. “The technical piece I think was a little bit harried,” Cook added. “Fortunately, legislation really got pushed quickly to ensure that clients were able to receive health insurance coverage for telehealth services, which hasn’t always been the case.” New York is one of 22 states that require Medicaid and private insurers to cover telehealth services — services provided by clinicians remotely, often online — thanks to the New York Health Parity

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Law, which went into effect on January 1, 2016. The state expanded the number of long-distance services eligible for Medicaid coverage in February 2019.

Going Remote Straus News reached out to the Mayor’s Office for details on how the city is working to address mental health care needs in response to the pandemic. In response, ThriveNYC Director of Communications Joshua Goodman gave the following statement: “During a stressful time, it’s common to feel anxious or scared. New Yorkers should stay connected to friends and family, check in on one another by phone, text, or email, and, if needed, reach out to NYC Well, the City’s free, confidential, 24/7 helpline, at 888-NYC-WELL.” On March 17, the Trump administration expanded access to telemedicine for the United States’s 62 million Medicare beneficiaries in a bid to maintain standard health care services without sending patients into hospitals or clinics where they might risk infec-

tion. At the same time, stringent confidentiality requirements imposed by the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) have constrained how therapists communicate with patients, eliminating most commercially available video conferencing apps. As therapists pivoted en masse to HIPAA-compliant video apps last week, “People were scrambling and there was talk of price gouging,” said Kayla Schwartz, LCSW, a counselor with Mindful NYC in Midtown. That frenzy died down after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that it would allow providers to contact patients through commercial programs like FaceTime and Skype without risking fines or penalties. (Public-facing applications like Facebook LIVE and TikTok are still no-gos, HHS noted in its memo.)

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MARCH 26-APRIL 01,2020 mosphere of extreme upheaval, eliminating insurance red tape allows mental health professionals to provide uninterrupted care when their patients most need it, though not everyone is happy with the shift. “It’s a loss, you know, but of course everybody is experiencing a loss of control in general,” said Randy Faerber, a psychoanalyst on Central Park West, “so this is just one more loss of control. Their routine is broken.” Faerber compares some of the behaviors New Yorkers have exhibited lately to a need to re-establish order in their lives. “People go out and say, ‘Oh, OK, if I have a lot of toilet paper, I’m safe,’ or ‘If I have a lot of bread and peanut butter and jelly, I’m safe’ … We’re trying to control what we can’t,” she explained. Every mental health professional stressed the importance of establishing new, home-based routines for regaining composure. “Many of us are trying to start a new routine or sort of morph an old routine into the new circumstances,”

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The New Normal Many of the tips mental health care providers shared with Straus News reflected their own strategies for staying open and responsive while also contending with the COVID-19 crisis. “Many people are experiencing similar intensities … the mental health providers are also then taking in all of their patients’ stress and anxiety and concern and holding that for them,” said Rory Rothman, Psya.D., a psychoanalyst and faculty member at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, whose patients include a

number of therapists. “I would say that while welltrained clinicians are hopefully adept at being with their patients and listening and taking in, and containing what the patients are expressing, right now what’s being contained is compounded by the intensity of the current situation.” “Certainly, we’re not on the front lines in the medical realm, but on some level, we’re on the front lines in the emotional realm,” Rothman observed. For some clinicians, emergency response means adapting business practices to the new normal. Cook is already looking into expanding Embodied Mind NYC’s reducedprice counseling services to people whose livelihoods were cut off by mandatory social distancing. “It’s a health crisis, an economic crisis and a mental health crisis as well,” he said. “I want to mobilize that so we can support those who are on the front line, and I think that’s a way that we can be on the front line.”

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Turn off all of your electronics, gather pens, pencils and crayons, sit down together at the table and draw on paper. Voila, a family drawing night! A time for connecting with each other and allowing ourselves to unwind. Simple as that, right? Ha! What about bedtime drama, sports, homework, todo lists, emotions, life and “Really? Do we have to?” (which is more likely to be

said by my husband than my son). This simple act of gathering together with pen and paper certainly needs some prep work. At the risk of making the “simple” feel complicated, this part is essential. Make it festive with wine, hot chocolate and cookies. Or just clear the table and set a timer for 15 minutes. The point is to be together and move a drawing implement around on paper. No one has to “make art” or “be creative.” We love those aspirations in our kids, but as adults? Personally, I have to remind myself that I don’t need a perfect drawing, I just need to keep moving my pen.

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NEW REALITY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 this new reality. Shortages of home and pantry staples such as bread, pasta, eggs and toilet paper have been rampant across the city’s grocery stores. But also, the necessary errand can make some feel vulnerable to contracting the virus. After reading about fistfights breaking out at supermarkets across the country, Jon Friedman, who lives in Stuyvesant Town, prepared for battle on a recent grocery haul. “I entered my local Gristedesturned-D’Agostino’s on First Avenue at East 21st St. with trepidation and the sound of the Rolling Stones’ “Street Fighting Man” playing in my head,” said Friedman. But, luckily, he found a much different scene. “Everyone was well behaved (even me) and respectful of one another,” he said. “I felt compassion for the checkout clerks, overburdened in normal times in this bustling store. Now, they had to worry about their health, on top of everything else. I tried to make stupid small talk and they seemed to appreciate the effort. I really appreciate them.” One Upper West Side resident has become wary of his fellow Fairway shoppers, particularly those wear-

It really is incumbent upon all New Yorkers, to do your damnedest to live by this new reality.” Mayor Bill de Blasio ing masks. “I’ve started waiting to shop until late in the day, usually around 8 o’clock or so. These days, it’s not very crowded at that time, but there’s still a problem: Shoppers with Masks,” he said. “Weirdly, I’ve discovered that people wearing surgical masks seem to be more likely to commit other no-no’s of social distancing while shopping.” He’s seen mask-wearing shopping distracted by their cell phones, loitering in the middle of aisles while they scan the shelves, and bumping into others as they rush to leave the store. Very few opt to wear vinyl gloves. “Perhaps this admittedly anecdotal evidence of selfishness isn’t surprising, given the good argument that at this point asymptomatic people with access to masks should be donating them to undersupplied

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ent. We’re all artists from birth – just give a toddler some crayons, and you’ll have proof. Most of us just haven’t been practicing. Staying in place may give time to explore our own creative spirits, and our beloved museums and institutions are offering help. The Met, MoMA, The Frick Collection, The Morgan Library, the Whitney, and museums around the world have countless resources for viewing, studying and experiencing their collections online. Their websites will guide you to them.

Quality Time with Hilma Many offer lesson plans for educators. Why not take up the offer, for yourself or your now home-schooled kids? Last year’s extraordinary Hilma af Klint exhibition at The Guggenheim introduced an astonishing, underappreciated artist with a wide range of interests and a unique voice. The museum’s website has a downloadable pdf file with lots to learn about her and her work, as well as creative prompts. Af Klint practiced automatic drawing and writing. One of the plan’s suggestions is to take an old book or magazine and black out all except every tenth word. Continue this until there are twenty words left, and use them to create a poem.

A World of Coloring Books Color Our Collections, an online compendium presented by the New York Academy of Medicine, shares the work of hundreds of museums and libraries who’ve turned some of their treasures into coloring books. All invite you to play with art and see what you come up with. They’ve got everything from

botanical studies to medieval manuscript illustrations to Kewpie dolls. I found a Durer woodcut from the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile and am curious to see if color will add or detract. The Vatican Museum’s two coloring books offer sketches by Bernini, Japanese woodblock prints, an engraving of the Trevi Fountain, and more. Who’s to say your version won’t be better than Bernini’s? Whatever you produce, the result will be a new creation, and you’re encouraged to take a picture and share it with the hashtag #colorourcollections. Then, take your artwork beyond the page as a starting point to find out more about traditional Japanese dress, Roman fountains, and Renaissance art. You’ll emerge wiser and with a new artwork, and you can boast that you collaborated with Bernini.

Drawing and Collage A website called Drawspace provides online drawing lessons – some free. If you can make squiggly little circles (and you can), which they call “squirkles” they’ll guide you through drawing your own forest of spruce trees. It’s a new path to explore, and one that may take you to unexpected places. The Parrish Art Museum in the Hamptons suggests home print making, or my favorite, learning to make a collage. Great artists like Romare Bearden, Robert Rauschenberg and Hannah Höch took bits of found material from magazines, newspapers, advertising, and packaging and recombined them into powerful, often provocative works of art. A downloadable pdf leads you through gathering snippets of paper, organizing

From Album of one hundred beauties, 1909, Domestic Scene, Kangetsu Shitomi. Image; Courtesy of DigitaVaticana

them into a color wheel, finding a work in their collection (or anywhere) that speaks to you, and reproducing it as a collage.

Go Ahead and Dance After sitting at your easel, desk, or kitchen table for hours as artists do, it’s good to take a break to stretch and move. The American Ballet Theatre’s got your back. Literally. People can tune to ABT’s Instagram site for daily lessons in ballet movement given by dancers and teachers from the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. Says ABT’s Delia Brengel, “The classes are free and open to everyone. While geared towards children ages 2-8 and their parents or caregivers, we encourage all who are interested to tune in and enjoy.” While our horizons might be somewhat limited for a while, it’s a perfect time to expand your spirit and mind. Surprise and discover yourself by nurturing your inner artist. Then just enjoy it or post and share it with the world.

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GHOST TOWN SCENE IN NEW YORK

A photoessay of NYC landmarks in the time of coronavirus BY THOMAS HENGGE

Life in New York City has come to an abrupt halt amid the outbreak of COVID-19. Following major cities affected around the world, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that as of Friday,

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March 13th, after 5 p.m. there would be no gatherings of more than 500 people, in the hope of stopping the spread of the coronavirus. Since then, Broadway canceled all shows for the foreseeable future, businesses have closed, restaurants have switched to only offering takeout in an attempt to stay afloat, and New York’s most popular tourist attractions are now ghost towns. A look at the city in the days that followed Cuomo’s initial announcement.

A commuter sporting latex gloves passes by Rockefeller Center, March 18, 2020. Photos by Thomas Hengge

Grand Central Terminal, one of New York City’s busiest stations, during rush hour on March 17, 2020.

A construction worker passes by the 911 Memorial and Museum, closed to the public amid the COVID-19 spread, March 17, 2020.

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