The Fight For New York

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  Associated Press

  

  A city under siege: 24 hours in the fight to save New York

  Associated Press

  NEW YORK (AP) — Brooklyn is dark except for the streetlamps when Carla Brown’s alarm goes off at 5:15 a.m. -- much too early for an average Monday. But with the coronavirus laying siege to New York, today looms as anything but ordinary. Brown runs a meals-on-wheels program for elderly shut-ins and …

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  Associated Press

  

  Docs, nurses give taxi driver rare fares during pandemic

  Associated Press

  NEW YORK (AP) — Nicolae Hent often would begin his day at JFK Airport, where he could clean his taxi while awaiting what might be a $70 fare before driving into Manhattan. No reason to go to the airport now. Nor does he see any point in heading to Manhattan earlier, instead. “No one wakes up before 12 …

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  For concierge, work and family provide focus during pandemic

  Associated Press

  NEW YORK (AP) — Joe DeLuca’s daily commute starts in the blue-collar enclave of Staten Island and ends at one of Manhattan’s most exclusive addresses, a journey that takes him away from his wife and three school-age children at a time when tens of thousands of New Yorkers are working from home …

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  Associated Press

  

  Bodega owner: Coffee, food but no customers in 'ghost town'

  Associated Press

  NEW YORK (AP) — The shelves are stocked, the coffee percolating at Deli-licious delicatessen. The only thing missing are the customers — the office workers who would come by for breakfast or lunch, the neighborhood residents stopping in for a quick purchase of a drink or a snack. But in the days of …

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  Associated Press

  

  'We're all in with our patients': An ER doctor's virus fight

  Associated Press

  NEW YORK (AP) — The call comes over the emergency-room loudspeakers: Sick patient. Everyone needed. The patient is struggling to breathe, his blood-oxygen level a life-threatening 50%. Another presumed coronavirus case. Another human being whom Dr. Joseph Habboushe and his colleagues will try to …

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  Associated Press

  

  A funeral director fights for New York's coronavirus dead

  Associated Press

  NEW YORK (AP) — Jesus Pujols has fetched the deceased from emergency rooms. He has stepped over bodies in refrigerated trailers. The funeral homes he serves are storing remains by the dozen, often in chapels chilled by cranked-up air conditioners. The 23-year-old funeral director is sleeping some …