The Colorado Avalanche announced Saturday that a second unidentified player had tested positive for the coronavirus. According to the team’s statement, the Avalanche were advised of the positive test for COVID-19 on Friday night. The player is in self-isolation and his health will be monitored by team medical staff. “All other Avalanche players, staff and...
A $2 billion development along toxic Flushing Creek will pollute the neighborhood with gentrification, critics say. Affordable housing activists, unions and mom-and-pop shops have packed public hearings on the waterfront proposal, pushing back against more luxury apartments and designer stores. And as livid as they are about the revitalization, they are just as angry about...
If you’re rich and famous, there’s a much better chance that you’ll land an elusive COVID-19 test. If you’re an average Joe, well, good luck. “It’s the wild, wild West out there,” Dr. Edward Goldberg, a Manhattan internist said. “There’s very little unified messaging and when that happens, the rich and privileged jump the line....
With restaurants open only for delivery and take-out, delivery services are keeping New Yorkers fed. DoorDash driver D’Shea Grant, who is 41 and lives in Queens, has seen the crisis bring out the best in people. I deliver meals in Brooklyn and Queens, and I am logging more miles than ever. Since this all started,...
Anthony works as a doorman in Harlem. The 27-year-old’s job used to keep him busy. Now, he’s bored — and lonely. Today, I might have seen three tenants. I feel very sad. I enjoy the daily interactions with the tenants: making them laugh, greeting them as they walk into the building, petting the dogs as...
India is joining the global hunt for medical supplies as the coronavirus crisis there worsens, with officials seeking more than 38 million masks and 6.2 million pieces of personal protective equipment. Indian officials have sought supplies from “hundreds” of companies, according to a report by the country’s investment agency and obtained by Reuters. The document...
Bodega owner Wilfredo Baez, 37, has kept his Carroll Gardens shop, Willy Deli Grocery, open rain, snow or shine for more than 16 years. And while bacon, egg and cheeses aren’t selling like they used to, closing isn’t an option. A few weeks ago, we had a big rush. People were buying toilet paper and...
Despite New Yorkers being told to stay at home, 59-year-old Hollis, Queens, resident Eduardo Marino has been busier than ever driving passengers for Uber and Lyft. Before, I worked about 40 hours per week; now, maybe 60 hours. In the last week, I’ve made 20 trips to grocery stores to pick up riders. It’s usually...
While heroic staffers beg for protective equipment and don garbage bags to treat coronavirus patients at a Mount Sinai hospital, two of the system’s top executives are waiting out the public health catastrophe in the comfort of their Florida vacation homes, The Post has learned. Dr. Kenneth Davis, 72, the CEO of the Mount Sinai...
The city has gone to pot. Marijuana, that is. Since the coronavirus hit, sales of marijuana have gone through the roof in both the United States and Canada. Between March 16 and 22, sales of recreational cannabis rose by 50 percent across states including California, Colorado and Oregon, while medical marijuana sales jumped 41 percent...
The US film distributor that put out Oscar sensation “Parasite” has sealed a deal to pick up a sci-fi thriller called “Possessor” by Brandon Cronenberg.
In the end it was the boast about Nicolas Maduro’s private airport hangar that would seal their fate. At a secret meeting in Honduras, novice drug dealers Efrain Campo, 29, and his cousin Franqui Flores, 30, bragged to a Mexican cartel chief about their influence with their uncle, the president of Venezuela. It was the...
He spent so many days and nights tormenting the Knicks. He spent so many springs hijacking the championship aspirations of New York City with his brilliance. Michael Jordan faced the Knicks five times in the playoffs. He went 5-for-5, all of them excruciating affairs. Jordan may have been universally beloved everywhere else. In New York...
Billionaire David Geffen has been slammed for flaunting a photo of his time in quarantine -- from aboard his multi-million dollar yacht.
"This ship is a 70,000-ton message of hope and solidarity to the incredible people of New York, a place I know very well, a place I love," he said at a small, socially-distant gathering of about a dozen military officials at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia.
It’s time to take matters into your own hands. A week after New York City sent out a health announcement asking citizens to masturbate and avoid “rim jobs” during social isolation for the coronavirus, another crisis has hit our sexy times. According to the Guardian, a global shortage of condoms is looming after the coronavirus...
Thursday was supposed to be the first day we heard the crack of the bat and umpires screaming “Strike three” after the emphatic pop of the catchers’ glove. It was supposed to be the day we heard the roar of the crowd, cheering for the home team on Opening Day. Instead, there was silence. Thursday...
As restaurants struggle to stay afloat during the coronavirus crisis, Hollywood hotspot Craig’s has seen one unusual bright spot.
Apparently there were even more dinosaurs flying the fearsome skies. “Scientists have discovered three new species of flying reptiles that lived in the Sahara 100 [million] years ago,” according to the Guardian. The winged, fish-eating reptiles, called pterosaurs, inhabited prehistoric Morocco — back when the desert was an ocean. The discovery was made by David...
Myron Rolle has gone from the secondary at Florida State to the front lines at Massachusetts General Hospital. The former Rhodes Scholar and Tennessee Titans safety is now a doctor and third-year neurosurgery resident in Boston helping in the fight against the coronavirus. “I went down to the emergency department, and as I was walking...
Most every day now, New Yorkers see Jonathan Lambert on TV — the 43-year-old, who lives in FiDi, is the certified deaf interpreter for Mayor de Blasio’s press briefings. I’ve worked with the mayor through major events and emergency situations — Ebola, snowstorms — before, but this is really high stakes. I remember with Ebola,...
Omar Abouelnas, 26, lives in Sheepshead Bay and owns True Care Pharmacy in Boerum Hill — where they are giving out free medication and supplies to those in need. Seeing people terrified is upsetting, and I thought, “what can we do to help the community?” So we are giving away generic medicine to people who...
All they needed to do to boost Mass attendance was to close the church doors. With Masses suspended until further notice due to coronavirus, Catholic churches across the state are suddenly taking the electronic highway to heaven — streaming and broadcasting services live so parishioners can follow at home. Church officials say electronic attendance is...
Paris police are rooting out shady businesses illegally selling medical masks in the French capital, as officials scour the globe for more supplies to fight coronavirus. Authorities arrested a man last week after discovering 23,000 protective face shields in a truck in a chic neighborhood in western Paris. The man — who had a stack...
