Tag: coronavirus

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

If these talented people aren’t Upper West Siders, they should be — honorary, at least. (Actually, they’re from Pittsburgh.)

Some young people posted the poem above to a fence at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at 89th Street just inside Riverside Park. It's a

Two enterprising and philanthropic readers each had the same idea this week -- to turn our list of restaurants that are still offering delivery and takeout into a map. It's

It is the 10th day of our couples quarantine. We are shut-in spouses, conjugally confined, wedlocked. Twenty four is a lot of hours of marital bliss; seven is a lot of days.

It can be tough to navigate New York without bumping into people, but one man spotted on 68th Street and Broadway made for damn sure that he'll have

Community Board 7 is going virtual this week, hooking Upper West Siders up with politicians who plan to explain the city's response to the coronavirus.

The Upper West Side would hardly be a neighborhood without its restaurants. Aside from employing hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers,

Mt. Sinai, the hospital chain that operates the closest major hospitals to the Upper West Side, is setting up tents outside of its hospitals on West 59th and West 114th Streets to prepare

Pio Pio? Closed. Café Luxembourg? Closed. Barney Greengrass? Open. “It’s a new normal. The earth turned on a dime. I feel like we’re going into Armageddon,” said Gary Greengrass, proprietor