New york lockdown january11/24/2023 READ MORE: Online Learning Means New Barriers for NYC’s Homeless Students “Tomorrow I will see if the shelter has a common space downstairs we maybe can sit in to be closer to the WiFi,” she told City Limits. The kids’ schools gave the family two laptops, but the shelter’s WiFi didn’t reach their unit. I’m trying not to stress,” Kanjella Orr, who was living in a shelter in Hunts Point at the time with her four children. The launch of remote schooling also caused hardship for many families with children, particularly those living in the city’s homeless shelters. ![]() “What we are concerned about is that she might develop some sort of depression or she might just die of a broken heart,” Yolanda Czerech said of her grandmother who was in a nursing home in Middle Village, Queens. Nursing homes began restricting or outright banning visitors, leaving families looking for new ways to connect to their older relatives. The Parks Department closed city playgrounds at the start of April 2020.ĬOVID-19 restrictions changed the way New Yorkers lived their lives on a number of fronts. Jeanmarie EvellyThe playground at Athens Square Park bore a sign asking visitors to exercise alone. It will be the end of our businesses because nobody is going to come by.” Nine Days After ‘Black Monday’, Small Businesses Await Start of Relief Programs (March 18, 2020) “When the mayor decides to close these stores,” said one of the vendors pointing at the Bronx Terminal Market behind his cart, “then it will be when all of us are going to feel the real hit. A corn elotes and tamales vendor also reported a 50 percent sales reduction, though, for him, the hit came over this past weekend. For example, a vendor of winter hats and other headwear said he used to sell approximately $200 per day, and after March 9th he just sold $50 worth. Most of the street vendors in that spot reported at least a 50 percent reduction in sales. Housing advocates and local leaders began calling for a freeze on rent payments and evictions, and the city’s mobile vendors were already feeling the financial impact of near-empty streets and public spaces:įor most street vendors at the Bronx Terminal Market, sales started to decline on Monday, March 9th. “We will never forget their names, their faces, or the ways they have shaped this great city, and we recommit ourselves, in their memories, to remake our city into one that is more just, equitable, and resilient.”Īs the city and the world enters its third year of life with COVID-19, here’s a look back at some pivotal moments, as told through City Limits’ coverage of the crisis since March 2020.ĭuring the earliest days of the city’s shutdown the week of March 14, 2020, many supermarket shelves were bare as New Yorkers stocked up on food and supplies. “As we work to recover and rebuild New York City, we must remember those that we have lost, and carry on their stories,” Adams said in a statement Monday morning. ![]() The city lifted both its mask mandate for public schools and its vaccine requirements for indoor venues last week-citing declining cases, low community spread and high vaccination-marking a new phase of the reopening. Kathy Hochul had COVID-related events on their public schedules Monday, though the mayor’s office announced it would be lighting City Hall and five other municipal buildings amber to honor the anniversary. ![]() The two-year milestone seems to be passing in a much quieter way this year. A year ago, the city marked the the first anniversary of the crisis with a “day of remembrance” that included a memorial ceremony where images of those lost were projected onto the Brooklyn Bridge. ![]() Since then, nearly 40,000 New York City residents have died from the coronavirus. In the days to follow, public schools, restaurants and bars would shut down, and the five boroughs would enter an eerie state of lockdown while the city emerged as an early epicenter of the pandemic. Two years ago on Monday, New York City saw its first COVID-19 death. CDC Read our coverage of New York City’s Coronavirus crisis.
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