Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for our daily morning newsletter. Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday announced 11,000 free hotel rooms to help curb the spread of coronavirus, providing a safe isolation space for those who are recovering from illness but can’t afford a room of their own. Until […]
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City Shuttles Homeless and Other Virus Patients to Hotels
Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for our daily morning newsletter. The city is sending homeless shelter residents and public hospital patients with coronavirus to hotels — but won’t say where. And officials aren’t providing hotel staff or the city employees monitoring the infected guests with masks or any other […]
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‘I Just Need a Hug’: How Solo New Yorkers Survive Self-Isolation
Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for our daily morning newsletter. Her Harlem street was quiet and her studio apartment dark when Liz Jackson wrote her name, the date and, in small handwriting on a blank, gridded page: “Is anyone else quarantining alone?” She took a picture of the note […]