Tag: coronavirus

Several readers have written in asking for an explanation of price gouging. The possibility for it happening obviously exists as certain items

I am an Upper West Side resident and a landlord of a multi-family building with several street level commercial tenants. Like many of you,

Shiva Ganapathy was waiting in line to get into Trader Joe's on Columbus and 93rd when he wrote the following poem.

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine will not be setting up a hospital inside, according to reps for the cathedral, who said that Mt. Sinai called it off.

Thomas Drugs, on Columbus Avenue between 67th and 68th Streets, was fined by the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection for allegedly price gouging,

Andres Pastrana, the custodian at Christ & Saint Stephen’s at 120 West 69th Street, succumbed to complications from the COVID-19 virus and died Sunday afternoon.

Passover, like everything else, will be a little surreal this year. One Upper West Sider came up with a way to celebrate the holiday while also acknowledging

The other day, we posted a story about a man who put up a flier in Central Park, a kind of personal ad, seeking a mate. “I was single when the

Gold Leaf Stationers, on Amsterdam Avenue between 89th and 90th Streets, is open for business. Fasil Yilma, a personable and popular neighborhood small business owner, applied

A man has been posting signs in Central Park looking for a "coronavirus girlfriend" to get through these troubled times. He claims to be healthy

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is adding nearly 400 beds to the nave of the church for patients from Mt. Sinai a couple of blocks away. The cathedral

A tiger at the Bronx Zoo tested positive for Covid-19, raising new concerns about whether animals can indeed get the disease. Lions at the zoo

Hundreds of New Yorkers are dying of coronavirus every day. As the city approaches the apex of the pandemic, grim scenes have begun to emerge from its hospitals, where

Working in a grocery store today is itself a heroic act, given the stress of getting to work and operating in close quarters as coronavirus continues to spread.

Joy Behar has shared her love of the Upper West Side in calmer times. We thought we'd checkback in now to see how, like the rest of us, she’s figuring out life these days. Joy's

Toilet paper has been in very high demand during the coronavirus outbreak, with some people snatching up dozens of rolls to ferret away in their bathrooms.

With the neighborhood stuck inside for weeks, neighbors are sending messages in a new way and making new connections in the process.

The city has begun releasing zip-code-level data on the number of positive coronavirus cases. Upper West side zip codes have clearly been hit hard by the virus, with

On Saturday afternoon, Upper West Sider Mike Matthews was taking his friend, Amy (who asked that we only share her first name), out for some much-needed

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