Seeing a familiar face while waiting for the No. 6, a snack on the go and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
With coronavirus cases mounting, emergency workers are making life-or-death decisions about who goes to a hospital, and who is left behind.
We need to recognize any signposts leading up and out.
These are the people still working on a single block in Manhattan.
A tight social circle bound by New York City basketball is hit hard by Covid-19, with two dead and others ailing.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo compared the president’s suggestion that he was considering a quarantine on the New York region to “a declaration of war on states.”
Long-ignored vertical slabs all over the city are having a moment.
An experimental program attempts to fill the void of shuttered public schools.
Two extraordinary women — one 101, the other 95 — lived through the worst of the 20th century. They have some advice for you.
As his onetime foe and current friend, Dr. Anthony Fauci, confronts the coronavirus, the writer and activist watches history repeat itself.
Leaders across the spectrum in Canada have generally set aside differences when it comes to the current health crisis.
We want to talk to doctors, nurses, lab technicians — anyone who can share what they're seeing in the region’s hospitals and health care centers.
Cardiologists are seeing infected patients whose worst symptoms are not respiratory, but cardiac.
Weeks after he became one of the first New Yorkers to test positive for the illness, a Queens man says his “nightmare isn’t over.”
Mr. Obey was a veteran school principal who took to marathoning and kept at it — 38 times in a row in the New York City Marathon.
Four ways to measure the size of the outbreak across U.S. metro areas.
Two women at a N.Y. hospital ended up in intensive care after giving birth. They were infected with the coronavirus, which had been undetected when they were admitted.
A range of jobs, including bicycle and marijuana sellers, have been deemed vital. But the lists have been the subject of intense lobbying.
Officials said late Friday that the number of coronavirus cases in New York City had climbed above 26,000. The city’s death toll was 450.
In just one day, the state tallied 100 deaths from the virus.
‘Social distance socializing’ isn’t just a temporary stopgap. Online gatherings are the culmination of a broader shift.
‘Social distance socializing’ isn’t just a temporary stopgap. Online gatherings are the culmination of a broader shift.
Thanks to new window technology, there’s no such thing as the wrong side of the tracks.
Window technology and engineering advances have made it possible to live right next to train tracks.
How a team of photographers documented the quiet desolation of cities during the pandemic.
Life in New York has shifted since Redha Medjellekh was photographed in February. But his message in the video below remains the same: Keep dancing.
Small, striking moments from a pandemic.
There’s a sliver of solace for people who are isolated at home by the coronavirus: more time to walk pets. But professional dog walkers are losing work.
“I’m okay. Don’t tell Mom and Dad. They’ll worry,” he wrote to his sister. He may be the first nurse in New York City to die from the coronavirus.
A weekly guide to maintaining a social life while social distancing.
The interior designer Alex P. White transformed two rooms with little natural light into a moody oasis.
Governor Cuomo said that one factor in the rising death toll across the state was older patients staying on ventilators longer.
Cases in the state have topped 30,000, but Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said there were signs that density-control measures could be slowing the virus’s spread.
Despite some obvious suspects, scientists say chance may have played a big role in the explosion of cases.
This week New York City’s public schools began remote learning. But for the more than 100,000 students who are homeless, virtual education may be out of reach.
As the House prepared to vote on a $2 trillion relief plan, unemployment data set a bleak record and hospitals struggled with an influx of sick patients and lack of equipment.
The chef, who died Tuesday, created Indian-American dishes that surprised and still linger in the memory.
Hospitals in the city are facing the kind of harrowing increases in cases that overwhelmed health care systems in China and Italy.
Coronavirus has brought us to our knees. But we are still New Yorkers.
He shepherded more than 300 books into print, including James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk” and Robert Ludlum’s “The Bourne Identity.”
Tensions mount between New Yorkers with the means to retreat to their second homes and those who live in the towns year round.
They were canceled or postponed amid the coronavirus outbreak, but these ad hoc efforts let you support filmmakers and art houses without going to a theater.
Clubs like Nowadays, House of Yes and Marie’s Crisis are live-streaming D.J. sets and singalongs.
Thirty years ago, 87 people died when a jealous lover set a fire at the Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx. An oral history of what happened next.
Check your lighting and be deliberate about the background you’re showing the world.
The mayor joined Governor Cuomo in criticizing the $2 trillion package for shortchanging New York, the U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus crisis.
"We haven’t flattened the curve, and the curve is actually increasing," the governor said as confirmed cases in the state increased to nearly 26,000.
David Rockwell, the architect and Tony-winning show designer, talks about the stories and history behind his favorite theaters.
Drivers have contended with Uber and inflated medallion prices. Now the pandemic has caused rides to plummet by two-thirds or more.
People fleeing New York to other parts of the country were told to quarantine themselves for 14 days. Prince Charles has the virus. The number of deaths in Spain — more than 3,400 — surpassed the toll in China.
Untold thousands will likely die, absent federal intervention. And it needs to happen this instant. Why won’t the president help?
Bars and restaurants bottle up mixed drinks for takeout as the New York State Liquor Authority offers “new off-premises privileges.”
As museums shutter and theaters go dark, cultural institutions are calling for the government’s help. But they recognize they’re not the first priority during a pandemic.
Los científicos que han luchado contra otras pandemias describen las decisiones que se requieren para defenderse de un patógeno que se mueve con rapidez.
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn — resting place of Basquiat and Boss Tweed — extends its hours for cooped-up New Yorkers.
A staggering loss of ridership hits the subway system, and 52 M.T.A. workers are infected with the coronavirus.
The White House advised people who have passed through or left New York City that they should place themselves in a 14-day quarantine.
In the coronavirus crisis, kind gestures like picking up groceries could carry great risk.
With ridership and revenues plummeting, New York’s transportation system needs an urgent infusion of federal money.
The shared office space company is offering its workers $100-a-day bonuses to go to its locations amid the coronavirus crisis.
Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.
Federal officials said that anyone who left New York recently should self-quarantine at home for 14 days.
The White House said the virus “attack rate” in and around the city was five times that of other areas.
“I have not stopped crying,” said an expectant mother who learned that her husband could not be with her when she gives birth.
The Tokyo Olympics have been postponed. New York, now the center of the outbreak in America, braces for a flood of patients.
So many people jammed into such a small space has helped turn the city into the U.S. epicenter of the outbreak.
New York is more crowded than any large city in the country. That helps explain why it is the U.S. epicenter of the outbreak.
More than 40 percent of those who have tested positive for the virus in New York City are between the ages of 18 and 44.
The film producer, who is serving 23 years for sex crimes, has been isolated from other prisoners but has shown no symptoms.
Families are celebrating hundreds of boxes of heirlooms that were unloaded from the scorched interior of 70 Mulberry Street.
As county records office around the country shutdown, title searches and deed filings will grind to a halt.
The New York City region is now an epicenter of the pandemic.
Increased testing is revealing how quickly the coronavirus has spread in the state.
Spain’s health system is under strain as medical workers fall ill. A $1.8 trillion relief package is stalled in Congress. “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself,” President Trump said.
The White House warned of an alarming spread in New York City, but the president said “our country wasn’t built to be shut down.”
Facing sweeping new safety orders, a frightened public and health risks of close contact, many police departments have decided that, for now, less is more.
The city and its suburbs account for roughly 5 percent of global cases, forcing officials to take urgent steps to stem the outbreak.
Scientists who have fought pandemics describe difficult measures needed to defend the United States against a fast-moving pathogen.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York said on Sunday that cases of the coronavirus in the state had reached 15,168, and called on New Yorkers to stop ignoring social distancing.
He began delivering sparkling water in 1960, when hundreds of seltzer men plied the streets. He continued until 2017, when there were almost none.
The increase in cases stems from both the rapid growth of the outbreak and significantly increased testing in the state.
The fragile, low-paying existence of home health aides at the epicenter of the pandemic.
Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.
Discussing a “horrible” rock band, dreaming of a secret life and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
A satellite that detects pollution linked to cars and trucks shows declines over major metropolitan areas, including Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York.
With tight restrictions in place, the city offered scenes that might follow a blizzard, overlaid on a sunny spring Saturday.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the State Legislature can save lives by resisting calls to roll back criminal justice reforms.
As coronavirus infections explode in the U.S., hospitals could be forced to make harrowing choices if pushed to the brink. Planning is already underway.
The first few days of spring will see a mix of rain and snow from coast to coast, forecasters said.
Amid the spreading pandemic, thousands of employees of businesses in the airports around New York City may have their benefits cut off.
A growing chorus of officials and public defenders in New York City are calling for the release of people who are especially vulnerable to the coronavirus. The alternative, they say, may be a public health catastrophe.
Strict new directives, in New York, California, Illinois and other states, were intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Better than many cities, it turns out.
There are already critical shortages: A Bronx hospital is running out of ventilators. In Brooklyn, doctors are reusing masks.
Social distancing and maintaining a social life.
Health restrictions have led to cutbacks at hotels and golf courses. But the swimming pool remains open at a Florida resort, and a New York golf course offers “fresh air” without caddies.
Grocery stores have been deemed essential businesses, meaning their employees are worried about being exposed to the coronavirus.
Governors in New York and Connecticut tell residents to mostly stay indoors, and New Jersey’s is set to follow.
“I won’t have enough money to pay rent or to buy food or to survive. So I have to work. I have to do it”: How the coronavirus crisis is affecting workers across the city.
Mayor Bill de Blasio called on the federal government to send millions of masks and other medical supplies.
Demand for home delivery is rising, and New Yorkers barricaded in their homes are leaning more and more on a largely immigrant work force.
The track operators had vowed to continue racing this weekend, like much of the horse racing industry.
A bitter debate about diversity in the nation’s largest school system followed news last year that Stuyvesant High School had admitted just seven black students.
Americans returning from Italy and Spain say border control officials didn’t screen them or tell them to isolate themselves.
Reinvented menus, lowered prices, fire sales and the good old telephone are enlisted in the fight to survive the coronavirus crisis.
What goes into James Little’s work also goes into the art collection he and his wife have amassed.
This week’s properties are in Brooklyn Heights, on the Upper West Side and in Chelsea.
A surge in new infections coincided with an increase in testing capacity in New York State, and Connecticut delayed its primary.
We visited New Rochelle, N.Y., a hot spot of infections, and asked: Are the containment efforts working?
The rising number of coronavirus cases will soon overwhelm the health care system, Governor Cuomo said. A hospital ship should help.
Our photographer spent the last two weeks capturing the increasing fragility of New York.
Donald G. McNeil Jr. writes about what the experts are saying. Here, he answers questions about the pandemic.
Alarmist is not a word anyone has ever used to describe me before. But this is different.
The nonprofits that serve vulnerable communities were already stretched thin before the coronavirus.
A company that makes internet-connected thermometers has followed the flu more closely than the C.D.C. can. Now the devices may be turning up cases of Covid-19.
More than 100 test positive in two neighborhoods, all at two urgent care centers crammed with worried families.
The Met’s executives say the coronavirus outbreak makes painful layoffs likely for every cultural institution.
The move follows other art fair changes, like the cancellation of Art Basel Hong Kong and the early closing of Tefaf Maastricht.
Fear of exposure to coronavirus did not keep couples from showing up to wed at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau in case it, too, would be closed.
Fear of exposure to coronavirus did not keep couples from showing up to wed at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau in case it, too, would be closed.
Union Square Hospitality cuts 80 percent of its work force as restaurant companies around the country shed workers.
As more cafes, restaurants and hotels shut down, millions of workers will need help to survive.
Organizations expect labor shortages — just as an influx of ill and unemployed people hit the emergency feeding system.
New York was one city the other day, now we’re another.
Midway through a grim week, the virus continued to spread quickly.
Even if we manage to defeat the coronavirus, that world will not return.
The mayor warns that city residents must prepare for the possibility of a “shelter in place” order; the governor says it won't happen.
The symptoms have been easy to deal with. The health care system has not.
U.S. cities with public transit systems are being forced to adapt to the risks posed by the coronavirus, implementing new sanitation protocols while contending with fewer riders and workers.
The Fire Department dispersed revelers at one celebration that more than 200 attended in defiance of restrictions on public events.
Life in New York City, a colossus of 8.6 million people and an economic engine for the country, is grinding to a shocking halt.
He wrote colorful books based on his time in exile in New York. His politics were just as colorful.
We’re denied the solace of community just when we need it most.
Yes, experts say. Equal parts transit alternative and therapy, contemplative strolls are helping people’s mental and physical health. Just stay six feet apart.
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut remain under drastic restrictions and shutdowns.
A city whose lifeblood is its thousands of bars and eateries is suddenly without them (but you can still order a cocktail).
As the city placed more restrictions on businesses over fears of coronavirus, a tight-knit group of workers in Brooklyn struggled to say goodbye.
The group manager is responsible for everything from broken elevators to smashed lights to overflowing toilets.
For those who revel in urban life, it’s hard to believe it can just stop.
Little Italy in the Bronx sauces are sold by Belmont’s business improvement district to support the neighborhood.
Uzair Paracha served 17 years in prison. But his conviction was thrown out and his lawyer says he is innocent.
As other workplaces go online-only, traders continue to jostle on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The building has started to be regularly sanitized to help protect against coronavirus.
As other workplaces go online-only, traders continue to jostle on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The building has started to be regularly sanitized to help protect against coronavirus.
In ordinary times, Mr. Cuomo’s relentlessness and bullying drive New Yorkers crazy. In the age of the coronavirus, they soothe our battered nerves.
Mayor Bill de Blasio hesitated to close schools and restaurants, but pushback from advisers changed his mind. He still went to the gym Monday.
Mayor Bill de Blasio hesitated to close schools and restaurants, but pushback from advisers changed his mind. He still went to the gym Monday.
However long the closings across the country last, governments need to move fast if the industry is ever going to come back.
The threat of the virus, the school system’s most serious challenge in decades, means 1.1 million students need child care and other resources.
With the closing of museums, Broadway theaters and restaurants, tourism is plunging, leaving New York facing mass layoffs and business failures.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said that New York City was taking steps to add hospital beds as the coronavirus outbreak continued to spread.