A healthcare provider places a bandage over a patient’s flu vaccine injection site. ( CDC / Brandon Clifton) You Can Now Get the Updated COVID-19 Vaccine Everyone who is six months and older should receive the newest version of the COVID vaccine, recommends the Center for Disease... News 27 Sep 2023 | 05:20
Larry DeVito and his beloved hat, a beret his daughter brought him back from Italy, which he wore every winter for 16 years. Photo courtesy of Janine DeVito The Things They Carried Janine DeVito’s father Larry checked himself into the hospital on March 26 and was admitted quickly with COVID-19. Larry... News 06 Jan 2021 | 09:33
Kristina Libby with a floral heart in Bryant Park. Photo: Noel Calingasan Allowing Grief to Blossom While earning her master’s degree, Kristina Libby had studied incidents of mass trauma and how they impacted communities.... News 29 Nov 2020 | 10:16
A SYNERGY caretaker helps a client walk. Photo courtesy of Mandy Cline The COVID Loneliness Squad Throughout the past few months, only one place has been considered a safe haven: one’s home. Yet as the coronavirus pandemic... News 15 Sep 2020 | 06:09
On August 6, State Senator Brad Hoylman began participating in a phase three clinical trial for a vaccine candidate to prevent COVID-19 under the auspices of NYU Langone Health’s Vaccine Center. Photo: Office of New York State Senator Brad Hoylman Hoylman Takes His Shot State Senator Brad Hoylman felt it was “truly a matter of putting my money where my mouth is.” Well, actually, where his... News 30 Aug 2020 | 03:36
Cover photos by Addie Egan. Writing the Book on COVID When the coronavirus pandemic hit New York City, Dr. Krutika Parasar Raukar was a rotating resident in three area hospitals,... News 30 Aug 2020 | 12:30
Asphalt Green. Photo: Charles Smith Seawright to City: Reopen Indoor Pools As New York State and City continue in the slow-going process of reopening its economies, Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright... Home 24 Aug 2020 | 09:06
Sami Roberts and her boyfriend, Andre, look for a new apartment in Brooklyn. Photo by Sami Roberts. Looking for an Apartment through COVID-Goggles When my boyfriend and I made the great trek from Denver to New York in August of 2019, there was a lot we were unprepared... News 22 Aug 2020 | 01:25
Central Park. Photo by Rachel Kramer via Flickr. How to Bring New York City Back “Fall down seven times. Get up eight times.” ––Japanese Proverb New York City is dying – or, at least, so I’ve read in the... Home 19 Aug 2020 | 11:27
Peggy Rey and Wilfredo Salaman. (Photo: Emily Higginbotham) Pandemic Roommates Peggy Rey says not many people understand her friendship with Wilfredo Salaman. Rey is a 76-year-old former childcare provider.... News 27 Jul 2020 | 12:56
President Ellen Futter of the American Museum of Natural History (center) with former President Jimmy Carter, at the 2015 AMNH exhibition from the Carter Center. (Photo: American Museum of Natural History) ( Photo: American Museum of Natural History) The Next COVID Challenge UPDATED on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020 New York has used up the margin of safety it built this spring to contain the coronavirus.... News 19 Jul 2020 | 08:51
Volunteers urging New Yorkers to stop at St. James Recreation Center testing site on Fordham Road in the Bronx. ( Photo: NYC Health + Hospitals) Microbe Hunting The microbe hunters of New York are using every tool and tactic they can think of to seek out and contain the coronavirus.... News 10 Jul 2020 | 04:03
Public service reminder at Fifth Ave. and 88th Street. ( Photo: Michael Oreskes) The Coronavirus Tightrope New York is walking a perilous tightrope right now, balancing the restart of the economy – and of social contact – with the... News 03 Jul 2020 | 05:58
Photo courtesy of Stephan Russo. COVID Redux Back in April, I wrote a piece for the West Side Spirit about my bout with COVID-19. I had tested positive and was hospitalized... News 01 Jul 2020 | 04:00
Elizabeth Murray at C-Town on June 4. ( Photo: Nancy Ploeger ) Shopping for Seniors During COVID-19 Few people know the C-Town on 89th Street and First Avenue better than Elizabeth Murray. Every week, she visits the store... News 11 Jun 2020 | 05:49
