Dr. Dave A. Chokshi, the new health commissioner, speaking to the @nycHealthy team on August 6, 2020. (Photo via @NYCHealthCommr on Twitter) A Blunt Change of Command She said she wore her “kickin boots” for her last day as health commissioner. Dr. Oxiris Barbot quit last week with a protest... News 09 Aug 2020 | 10:15
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo created a poster to depict the “mountain” of New York’s COVID experience. (Photo: Don Pollard / Office of Andrew M. Cuomo) New York’s State of Anxiety Megadoses of anxiety have always been essential to the New York state of mind. But this really does feel different. Existential... News 01 Aug 2020 | 02:55
Left to right: Professor Mark Siddall and President Ellen Futter of the American Museum of Natural History with former President Jimmy Carter, at the 2015 AMNH exhibition from the Carter Center. ( Photo: American Museum of Natural History) The Next COVID Challenge New York has used up the margin of safety it built this spring to contain the coronavirus. That is a blunt way to describe... Home 19 Jul 2020 | 02:51
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
Dr. Laura Popper. ( Photo courtesy of Dr. Laura Popper) Dr. Mask Monitor She calls it the Peter Pandemic: “I Won’t Grow Up. I Don’t Wanna Wear a Mask.” Few people have more right to throw this shade... News 27 Jun 2020 | 05:29
Fiorello on the Upper West Side gets ready for outdoor dining. ( Photo: Jeanne Straus) Staying Safe in Phase Two New York City embarks this week on Phase Two of its great experiment to see how much of our previous life we can resume without... News 21 Jun 2020 | 01:21
New York City Transit Chief Customer Officer Sarah Meyer (left), interim President Sarah Feinberg (second from left) and MTA NYCT staff prepared on Sunday, June 7 for the the subway’s safe return reopening on Monday, June 8. ( Photo: MTA New York City Transit / Patrick Cashin) Scent and the Subway Sarah Meyer earned a unique place this week in the annals of the New York City subways. Never before has a transit official... News 12 Jun 2020 | 02:11
At Governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily press briefing on Sunday, June 7, 2020. ( Photo: Darren McGee / Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo) Lifting the Lockdown New York City begins its climb out of lockdown this week much the way it entered, with its leaders contradicting each other,... News 07 Jun 2020 | 05:42
Mayor Bill de Blasio tours Flatbush with Council Members Farah Louis and Mathieu Eugene and Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte on Sunday, May 31, 2020. ( Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) De Blasio’s Reckoning He was elected on a pledge to bridge the “two cities” of New York, one rich and privileged, the other poor and pressured.... News 01 Jun 2020 | 04:00
Magnolia Bakery cupcakes. ( Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim, via flickr) Cupcake Pandemic Only in New York could the leading edge of building back from the pandemic be a cupcake store on the Upper West Side, guided... News 21 May 2020 | 05:04
Dr. Oxiris Barbot on screen at a media briefing by Mayor Bill de Blasio at City Hall, Friday, May 1, 2020. ( Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.) The Vitamin D Question Why has New York City been slammed so hard by COVID-19? There are almost as many theories as lights gone dark on Broadway.... News 15 May 2020 | 12:24
David J. Brenner at a TED talk in 2017. ( Photo: Bret Hartman) A 'Far Light' Solution? EXCLUSIVE - In a sealed lab at Columbia University, researchers say they have found a way to destroy coronavirus in the air... News 04 May 2020 | 10:45
On Sunday, April 19, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the New York State Department of Health would begin to conduct a statewide antibody testing survey. ( Photo: Kevin P. Coughlin/ Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo) The 'R' Factor The lockdowns are working. The coronavirus is retreating. One of the most basic metrics in epidemiology, the legendary R,... News 20 Apr 2020 | 09:29
Firefighters applaud medical staff at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue on Friday, April 10, 2020 during a visit by Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady to thank health workers. ( Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) The Road to Recovery Closing a great city was simple, it turns out, compared to the task ahead of reopening it safely. What we were told to do... Voices 10 Apr 2020 | 05:07
