Weather: Cloudy, with a high in the mid- to upper 50s. Showers are possible in the afternoon.
Alternate-side parking: Suspended through tomorrow because of the coronavirus. Meters are in effect.
The number of coronavirus deaths in New York was expected to have pushed past 1,000 yesterday when the final data arrive today.
The statewide death toll was more than 960; at least 775 of those deaths were in New York City, according to the latest figures Sunday evening from the city and state, and county-level data compiled by The Times.
Governor Cuomo said earlier yesterday that more than 230 people had died in the state since Saturday. It was the state’s largest one-day increase in coronavirus deaths.
The projections, he said, suggested that the crisis would worsen.
“I don’t think there’s any way to look at those numbers without seeing thousands of people pass away,” the governor said.
As of yesterday evening, there were nearly 60,000 cases of the coronavirus in the state. More than half of those cases, nearly 34,000, were in New York City, according to data from the city and state.
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Mr. Cuomo extended his order for all nonessential workers to stay home until April 15.
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More than 76,000 health care workers, many of them retirees, have volunteered to work in hospitals should the facilities become even more strained.
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New York City recorded its first death of a patient younger than 18. City officials said the patient had underlying health conditions, but no other details were immediately available.
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Patrick J. Foye, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said in a statement late Saturday. Mr. Foye was experiencing only mild symptoms and was keeping a full schedule, the M.T.A. said.
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Mayor de Blasio said yesterday that New York City needed more medical supplies. “We have enough supplies to get to a week from today, with the exception of ventilators,” he told CNN. “We’re going to need at least several hundred more ventilators very quickly.”
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The city’s 911 system has been overwhelmed by calls for medical distress apparently related to the virus. Typically, the system sees about 4,000 Emergency Medical Services calls a day. One day late last week, dispatchers took more than 7,000 calls.
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About 540 prisoners at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn could develop serious illnesses related to the coronavirus and should be released immediately, according to a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn federal court late Friday. Katie Rosenfeld, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said prisoners and family members were “terrified” that the jail would “very soon be overwhelmed with hundreds of people sick and dying inside the jail.”
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President Trump backed away from his suggestion on Saturday of imposing an “enforceable” travel quarantine on the New York region, writing on Twitter that “a quarantine will not be necessary.” Mr. Cuomo had earlier called the idea a “declaration of war on states.”
From The Times
Teachers’ Herculean Task: Moving 1.1 Million Children to Online School
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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Gets New Director
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What we’re reading
A lawmaker on Long Island is “bringing life into the world” by repeatedly donating her eggs. [New York Post]
Police officers in the Bronx delivered a baby. “There were no ambulances available at the time,” one of the officers said. [Daily News]
There has been a lack of social-distancing at some city parks. [Gothamist]
And finally: A wall. A ball. That’s all.
Alyson Krueger reports:
In a park along the Hudson River in Manhattan’s Battery Park City, New Yorkers are queuing up — six feet apart, of course — for their turn to play with a wall.
It’s a gray slab surrounded by a chained fence. A month ago, the drab-looking wall would have been easily overshadowed by the sleek Equinox or Asphalt Green gyms close by.
Now, it’s the belle of the ball. Locals are lining up to have their turn with it.
[Long-ignored vertical slabs all over the city are having a moment.]
Christian Jorg, 56, who runs two start-up accelerators, gets there at 7 a.m. An avid tennis player in normal times, he’s isolating, which means no tennis partners. Instead, he’s playing against the wall. “Do I prefer playing with a partner? Probably,” said Mr. Jorg, who grew up hitting tennis balls against walls in Munich. “But you have to make do for now.”
Lauren Wire, 31, a publicist who lives on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, never gave much thought to the brick walls in her building’s courtyard.
Now, every day she sets up her yoga mat against one to do exercises she would normally do at CrossFit. “Before coronavirus I would have felt awkward doing this in public,” she said. “Now I am putting music on with my sports bra and crushing it.”
Walls are also doing their part to help parents entertain their children, too.
Noah Coslov, 38, a freelance sportscaster, took his 5-year-old daughter, Eden, to play in Midtown East. They had some tennis balls and found a wall. “We probably made up eight different games, throwing the ball against the wall at targets and passing it to one another,” he said.
It’s Monday — have a ball with a wall.
Metropolitan Diary: Familiar face
Dear Diary:
I stepped off the express train at the Union Square station one day some time ago and crossed over to the local side of the platform.
As I looked toward the tunnel hoping to see the lights of an approaching No. 6, I saw a woman step onto the platform. She had short, light-blond hair, and she was wearing tights, boots and a long sweater.
She looked vaguely familiar, but lots of people begin to look familiar if, like me, you take the same train to work every day.
I saw another woman on the platform do an obvious double take and stare at the familiar-looking woman. That made me wonder who she was.
When a 6 pulled in, I sat down on a two-seat bench next to the door. The woman I was wondering about stepped on behind me. I slid over to make room for her to sit beside me, which she did.
I was listening to music with my headphones on, and I opened my book and began to read. When I looked up, there were three people hanging off the pole in front of me taking pictures with their phones.
With my eyebrows raised in a questioning expression, I looked at the woman sitting next to me. She shrugged and grimaced and then her face returned to expressionless. I shrugged and returned to my book.
The woman got off at the stop before mine. When the train pulled into my stop, I got off and went up the stairs thinking about what I should listen to as I walked. A Pink song was playing at the time.
That’s it, I realized. Pink. That’s who I had been riding the train with.
— Leslie Freed
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