New Yorkers of all stripes joined in the battle for their city in a recent 24-hour period during the coronavirus pandemic.
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New York has endured punishing trials — terrorism on Sept. 11, 2001, flooding and power failures afterSharon Kleinbaum is a rabbi at Beit Simchat Torah, the nation’s largest gay and lesbian synagogue.in 1992, when she became the first rabbi of Beit Simchat Torah, the nation’s largest gay and lesbian synagogue. But even that experience could not prepare her for the job of trying to comfort congregants from a distance.
Kessel has done ambulance work since he was 16, but he’s never weathered anything like this. A typical shift used to average five or six emergency calls. The pandemic has doubled or tripled that number.Sara Haines, who has three children, runs a live feed from home when she is filling in as a host on television’s “The View.”
“There are people that are really scared and watching from home. People are dying,” she says. What happens when she addresses that audience from her sofa? “You don’t want it to be interrupted by a toddler.”Carla Brown, executive director for the Charles A. Walburg Multiservice Organization, runs a meals-on-wheels program in Queens.
“That was finite. We just had to wait,” she says. “This is just getting stranger and stranger every day. ... You don’t know where the end is. So how do you plan for that?”“I think we’re all going to come out of this kinder and more appreciative of life,” Broadway actor E. Clayton Cornelious says.When the pandemic shut down the Broadway musical “Ain’t Too Proud -- The Life and Times of the Temptations” and sent him and other cast members home, it felt like a staycation.
By day’s end, New York’s paramedics have responded to 5,639 calls for emergency medical assistance — dwarfing the 3,500 calls that came in on 9/11.
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