is New York City dead?

https://gothamist.com/food/free-grab-and-go-meals-now-available-anyone-need

My dad was a Queens paramedic long ago and still listens to the dispatch radio as background noise. He was wondering last night why he heard dispatchers start spelling out the names of streets. Mystery solved https://t.co/iHkSaOHyPP

— sethmpk (@sethmpk) April 4, 2020

https://www.mediaite.com/news/bill-de-blasio-rejects-claim-u-s-knew-asymptomatic-people-could-spread-the-virus-only-learned-that-in-the-last-48-hours/"> https://www.mediaite.com/news/bill-de-blasio-rejects-claim-u-s-knew-asymptomatic-people-could-spread-the-virus-only-learned-that-in-the-last-48-hours/

gah not good at zing

fundamentalist maniacs

https://gothamist.com/news/hasidic-funerals-crowds-ultra-orthodox-neighborhoods

are there actually more sirens or am i imagining that

there is less noise in general on the streets so the sirens stand out

like right now i am hearing a baby crying from--seemingly--an apartment on the other side of 9th avenue

usually that wouldn't happen

treesh otm

I’m pretty into this clapping thing

Ugh

i've concluded the roar of motorcycles for 18 hours a day on my epically long street is just ONE guy, so I need to mess with his brake fluid.

Probably Cuomo

clapping in the bar [Started by calstars in April 2020]

several points of note:

How to get your groceries (being regularly updated) - https://ny.eater.com/2020/4/6/21208622/nyc-grocery-delivery-guide-coronavirus

Some are small scale and involve bicycles or hand carts to circumscribed neighborhoods; others are massive operations with fleets of trucks that cover the city and parts of New Jersey and Westchester, or involve shipping by FedEx or UPS. None are cheap, but some offer a few bargains. The emphasis may be on premium groceries and boutique produce, but on the positive side, some make closer connections between farmers and the food consuming public. And remember to tip — delivery and grocery store workers are among the most vulnerable populations in the city right now.

"COME DOWN THE BLOCK DE BLASIO"
https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/hecklers-demand-test-treatment-from-de-blasio-at-bronx-hospital/

Full absenteeism voting for June state primaries is a go, you fucking well know we would've voted for Bernie you fucking shitheels
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2020/04/09/coronavirus-in-nyc-update-new-yorkers-can-now-vote-absentee-in-june-primaries

Moe Albanese of Albanese Meats is dead to COVID, that dude was a local legend
https://ny.eater.com/2020/4/9/21214819/moe-albanese-butcher-little-italy-coronavirus

so fucked we haven't even voted yet.

who gives a shit what new yorkers think, we're not real americans

except we make the media and house the statue of liberty and rebuilt (slowly) after 9/11 and survived Sandy and are slogging through a pandemic and create the culture and embody the melting pot and symbolize the first thoughts of america to most of the world but hey fuggit

Third consecutive day of record death toll in New York. Not sure why it plateaued at the weekend. Maybe people aren't allowed to die then.

there's the thing going around in other countries where the ppl doing the counting don't ingest numbers over the "weekend" so there's a bump or revision on monday and tuesday. prob the same thing here

You can't expect people to count corpses on Sundays - they've got to get to church.

ulysses I'll see your NYC and raise you one DC

respect to anybody who slogs it out there too!

with the obvious notable exception of the administration

I am suuuuure

On Thursday afternoon, Governor Andrew Cuomo assured the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who are struggling to file for unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic that his administration is doing everything it can to streamline the process. "The system just crashed because of the volume, it's one of those unanticipated consequences of a situation like this," Cuomo told reporters. "We're working with Google to come up with an online mechanism that bypasses any phone certification. You have the phone certification because you want to make sure that people who are applying are also qualified."

But lawmakers and legal experts say that this emphasis on eligibility to prevent overpayments—with weekly phone check-ins and prohibitions on part-time work—is a huge reason for the bottleneck in the first place....

https://gothamist.com/news/cuomo-unemployment-insurance-system-website-google-coronavirus

"working with google"???

who else

google’s partner verily was also supposed to get testing program up and running by early March and it has gone nowhere

At the daily briefings when they ask the unemployment system fail question I have little confidence in the woman to cuomo’s left who always answers, but I can’t tell exactly why. She seems nervous ? Admittedly I wouldn’t want that job

I wouldn’t want my job to bring me within 100 yards of Andrew Cuomo let alone 6 feet. He seems like a throwing-staplers kinda guy.

dickhead

BDB: "[Open streets] is not enforceable the way we need it to be and it disrupts other important things we need at the moment."

He urges New Yorkers to keep "bobbing and weaving."

I hate this guy.

— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) April 10, 2020

So I read this, about the worst affected NYC zip codes and googled 11368 to find it's an area of Queens actually called Corona. Forgive my ignorance as a recent arrival but I honestly assumed someone had fiddled with Google Maps as a prank.

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/09/nyc-coronavirus-deaths-race-economic-divide/

rosie queen of corona

<3

Second place goes to the lemon ice king of corona obv

indeed he does rule

Cecil Taylor was from Corona, Queens, and named several albums after it:

https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/corona

https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/looking-berlin-version-corona

https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-of-corona

also where Louis Armstrong lived for decades
https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/

oh, I totally forgot about Corona, Queens.

it is where the Mets play (not Flushing)

i am a bad queens resident.

I wrote about the sirens https://t.co/geMSB6RHyU

— Samer (@Samer) April 10, 2020

in corona yo it's better to take than to receive - ju ju

No systems fail question today sadface lolz

every time I see this I feel like I am living in an entirely different city because I haven't consciously registered a single siren since this all started

(and there are several hospitals near me, my zip code is in the middle in terms of COVID cases; there's no reason why I wouldn't hear sirens, and yet I can't remember a single one)

Essential workers were waiting for the subway on a crowded platform. The NYPD told people to socially distance even though they literally couldn't.

One man told the police that they couldn't spread out and THIS is how they reacted.

Absolutely outrageous and dangerous. pic.twitter.com/1RbTDZ6tej

— Real Justice (@RealJusticePAC) April 10, 2020

Andy-Billy slapfight will never stop, this time about school year ending

https://gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-updates-april-11-de-blasio-claps-helpers-bellevue