Part eight of 15 proposals to help us remember the pandemic’s toll. Mayor Bill de B… There are several small grocery stores within walking distance, but Fairway has always been No. New York City public schools will remain open for in-person learning — at least for now — but a system-wide shutdown could still come next week, officials said Saturday. Close. Archdiocese of New York All of its elementary schools in Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island and upstate will close March 16. 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Michael Arad (Briefly) Reveals an Ancient Wall Beneath the Reservoir. My children love to visit the lobsters in the tank — still there, looking sadder, though maybe I was projecting — and eat samples of cheese (though when we went last week, our masks on, sampling was clearly not on the menu). We are all in a grief-stricken haze, vacillating between some semblance of normal life and grappling with the enormity of what we have lost. Sometimes it would take John an hour to find the screws I wanted among all the nuts and bolts, but, you know, I didn’t care. Part six of 15 proposals to help us remember the pandemic’s toll. —Emma Straub, A year almost to the day before New York went into lockdown, that great big vertical shopping mall at Hudson Yards had its opening-night party, with free food, lots of drinks, and throngs of people from all walks of putative VIP-dom wandering around asking one another if they’d ever come back. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Friday that indoor dining in New York City will not … During the pandemic, many well-off New Yorkers fled to South Florida … and their favorite restaurants followed. If you’re writing for adults, there’s a chance you’ll meet a reader at a party or on social media. Part 4 of 15 proposals to help us remember the pandemic’s toll. The National Park Service has been left with just a skeleton staff, but officials said parks would remain "as accessible as possible." —Michael Musto, Sometimes, writing children’s books is like howling jokes into a void. Part 1 of 15 proposals to help us remember the pandemic’s toll. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday that restaurants in New York City will be forced to close their indoor dining sections beginning Monday. (Keep up to date NYC news by signing up for Patch's newsletters and breaking news alerts.) You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. The best things to do in NYC today involves free and cheap activities, awesome concerts and more. The store has showcased everything from burger-shaped kitchen timers to shell-shaped soap dishes, and none of them were ever going to break the adorable pink piggy bank you could get there for peanuts. He’d make sculptures out of beer and soda cans and had all these things he made — airplanes, spaceships — hanging from the ceiling of the store. Loans and mortgage approvals will not be processed by the Federal Housing Administration, which will slow down potential new homeowners. Marvel Reconvenes a ‘Social Block’ for Brooklyn’s Last Puerto Rican Social Club. Going to School in a Dead Mall? What is grief for a grocery store? I went last week, my first visit since the onset of the coronavirus. DeLuca wasn’t the kind of place you’d go to if you needed something fast. What's Open in NYC Businesses across all five boroughs are working toward a common goal: to welcome back guests, employees and the community at large while ensuring everyone’s health and safety. Andrew Cuomo announced, as cases and hospitalizations from the coronavirus illness COVID-19 continue to rise. And sadly, probably, more to come before the city returns to its purpose: a place of gathering. How This 1856 Chelsea Parlor-Floor Apartment Got Its Glamour Back. A COVID memorial will have to commemorate shame and failure as well as grief and bravery. Museums and historical sites run by the National Park Service also are closed, including The National Museum of the American Indian, Federal … Here’s a look at which agencies are closed during the partial shutdown and which remain open in New York. Which is why I appreciated reading at Sunday Storytime at Stories Bookshop near Barclays Center. A few hours later, Dan messaged me: “Sold out of your bowls. Libraries will be closed. Founded on the Upper West Side in 1933, the chain declared bankruptcy at the start of 2020; its Red Hook location, shuttered in June, was the neighborhood’s largest grocer. A value store may never be this valuable again. For the first time in nearly a year, moviegoers came back to the theater — masked and seated apart. I don’t drink coffee, but even I could recognize that the coffee department smelled like heaven, populated by giant barrels of whole beans and a dedicated staff member who would grind them for you on the spot. Navigate five flights of manipulatively located escalators and you eventually arrived at Neiman Marcus — the city’s first branch, although the store, anchor to enough dead malls already, reportedly had been a source of anxiety for the Hudson Yards developer, which worried it might try to wiggle out of its lease before it even opened. I don’t know that I can see it clearly enough to say. Bronze Hands to Commemorate the Barely Seen Delivery Worker. He’d talk to you, tell you things about the neighborhood you didn’t know or maybe had heard 700 times. Part two of 15 proposals to help us remember the pandemic’s toll. Stonewall Inn, where gay pride was born, is saying it may have to close due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Alinea Group’s high-end cocktail dens—The Aviary NYC and The Office (a more speakeasy concept)—inside the Mandarin Oriental were reportedly already slated to close … A crowd would always show. Malls remain closed New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered all public and private schools in so-called hotspot zip codes in Brooklyn closed on Tuesday as COVID infections spike, in a setback to NYC’s reopening efforts. The idea, I gathered, was for you to take a selfie there, as if you were actually in New York City instead of this Dallas Galleria tribute to it, perhaps next to one of the models who had been hired to loiter hautily about, looking as if they’d escaped from a party scene in Sex and the City. The IRS announced on Jan. 7 it intends to begin processing tax returns and will issue refunds as planned, despite the shutdown. John DeLuca in front of De Luca General Store, Staten Island, 2005. Part seven of 15 proposals to help us remember the pandemic’s toll. John DeLuca, who owned De Luca General Store on Staten Island for 43 years, died of COVID-19 in May. Everything We Know About the Sweeping New Housing Discrimination Lawsuit. Labor Day is always observed on the first Monday in September. Museums and historical sites run by the National Park Service also are closed, including The National Museum of the American Indian, Federal Hall, African Burial Ground, Hamilton Grange Memorial, General Grant N. Memorial, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and Theodore Roosevelt’s Birthplace. A decision about re-opening will be made at a later date. Subscribe Now! That was what Fairway felt like to me — proof that my life was one long, continuous line, stocked the whole way with Fairway’s in-house challah and dried fruit and olive oil and unlimited samples of cheese. Funding for about a quarter of the government’s departments ran out on Dec. 22 as Congress failed to pass a stopgap funding bill that could have avoided the partial shutdown, which is now the longest in United States history. Hotels on the Brink: ‘A Complete Washout’ Several big hotels in the city have announced that they are closed for good, and …