Month: March 2020

Only a few weeks ago, dogs and owners were gathering for early morning and weekend play dates. Pups were eagerly anticipating weekday afternoon visits from

New Jewish Home, a nursing home and rehab center at 120 West 106th Street, has dealt with challenges during the Covid-19 outbreak, as have other nursing homes throughout the city.

As anxiety mounts, along with illness and death in New York City and around the country, we’ve been asked to hunker down wherever we call home, for whatever

West Side Rag ran an interview series with creative locals for years that we called "Why the West Side." In these strange times, we're checking back in with

The USNS Comfort, a Navy medical ship with 1,000 beds, docked on Monday at Pier 90 off of 51st Street on the West Side. The ship was welcomed by

The federal government has launched a loan program designed to help small businesses and their employees through this period of closings and layoffs

Euclid Hall, a residence for seniors on Broadway between 85th and 86th Streets, appears to be being evacuated, said two people who witnessed residents

There is not a lot of good news these days. New York City is an epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, and it seems like things will get worse before they’ll get better.

Hospital tents began going up in the East Meadow of Central Park on Sunday, as a volunteer group working with Mount Sinai gets ready to open an overflow hospital in the park.

In the wake of Covid-19 where New York City has fast become an epicenter, one Upper West Side family is hard at work feeding frontline

Ask and ye shall receive. My West Side Rag mug runneth over. We posted that wonderful video of Mel and Claire Vatz from Pittsburgh, singing

Two neighbors I knew offered to shop for me and a third I didn’t know. I was reassured of the universal basic goodness of human

Neighboring Westsiders, for you who are still in town, tonight at 7 p.m. and all nights going forward are your chance to pay back some moral support

Fire erupted early Friday morning in the second car of a northbound No. 2 train as it pulled into the West 110th Street station. Garett Goble, 36,

Trader Joe's has temporarily closed its store at 72nd Street and Broadway for cleaning after an employee tested positive for the coronavirus.

The gyms are closed, and running in high-traffic areas can feel too close for comfort. So West Siders are finding other ways to get sweaty.

This is not the sixtieth birthday I had in mind. Maybe that’s not the worst thing. The pandemic is far worse. But one positive side-effect is we’re starting to be warmer to each other again.

SPONSORED: At the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan and JCC Harlem, so much of the work is about bringing people together and providing pathways to innovative programs, classes, and support for your daily life.

The city is tweaking its policy response to the coronavirus as residents remain in a near-lockdown to try to slow the spread.

Kious Kelly, an assistant nurse manager at Mt. Sinai West, has died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus