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
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
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
Nursing Home Card Project founder Rachel Bennett (right) and friend make cards. ( Photo courtesy of Rachel Bennett) The Nursing Home Card Project Rachel Bennett’s mom suffered from depression and PTSD, after living in D.C. during 9/11 and losing her husband in 2000.... News 11 Jun 2020 | 01:35
Zoom panel on the lessons of AIDS for the COVID-19 pandemic. ( Photo courtesy of Roosevelt House) COVID and AIDS: An Intimate Connection While New York City starts to come to grips with its deep social and systemic disparities over weeks of protests and outcry,... News 11 Jun 2020 | 12:49
