Ballet dancer and performer Ashlee Montague of New York wears a gas mask while she dances in Times Square. Ms Montague and others took advantage of the largely vacated New York City landmarks to capture once in a lifetime imagery.
Healthcare workers wheel the bodies of coronavirus victims from a rear door of the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Brooklyn, to an awaiting temporary morgue. As the death rate spiked, a scene like this became common due to overflow of hospital morgues.
A person walks by a row of refrigerated trucks that act as temporary morgues at the rear of the Office of Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York. The refrigerated trucks became fixtures outside of medical centers to deal with the overflow of bodies due to an exploding death rate from COVID-19.
Maria Ortiz kneels next to the body of her partner Jose Holguin, who died due to complications from the coronavirus disease. Mr. Holguin, 50, was a cancer sufferer who contracted COVID-19 while admitted to hospital for other health ailments.
People arrive at a drive through coronavirus testing facility set up on Jones Beach on Long Island. Multiple contact free testing facilities like these were constructed across the country to deal with the influx of people with symptoms. The centers in New York quickly became appointment only as demand for testing surged.
A passenger rides the Roosevelt Island Tramway while looking over an empty Queensboro Bridge at 6:00 pm on a Saturday night. With lockdown orders in effect, major arteries into Manhattan sat emptied.
People queue for food distribution in New Rochelle, New York. Food lines appeared quickly as the gig economy ground to a halt due to lockdown orders administered to stop the spread of coronavirus.
People are seen lining up to enter a Trader Joe’s supermarket in Brooklyn. Lockdown rules, social distancing rules and panic buying resulted in long lines to enter stores across the city. Shelves emptied as shoppers stocked up on essential items.
Ambulances queue outside the emergency entrance of the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn. As the city emptied, one constant was the sound of sirens.
Members of the New York Air and Army National Guard work to disinfect the halls of New Rochelle High School. New Rochelle became one of the first areas in the state with a breakout of coronavirus and an exclusion zone was created to try to contain the disease.
Members of the U.S. Army walk through a medical center set up in Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan. The temporary center, erected to deal with expected overflow of patients in city hospitals, created over 2,900 individual spaces for coronavirus patients.
The USNS Comfort, a Navy hospital ship, is escorted by the Statue of Liberty as it arrives in New York City. The ship was sent to assist with anticipated overflow of patients from New York hospitals.
A person walks along a deserted Coney Island beach as the city lockdown saw popular public spaces all but completely devoid of people.
The Main Concourse in Grand Central Terminal is seen at the stroke of midday on a Wednesday during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease. New York’s most famous transport hub stood eerily silent as people obeyed stay at home orders.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as a news broadcast discusses the outbreak of coronavirus. The trading floor closed on March 20 after several traders and members of the media contracted the illness, eventually re-opening again two months later.
A delivery of 64 new hospital beds to Mount Sinai Hospital are checked. The hospital increased its capacity to deal with the patient intake increase due to the coronavirus disease.
Healthcare workers at NYU Langone Health hospital in Manhattan stand and clap at 7:00pm, part of a daily ritual the celebrate frontline workers in the fight against coronavirus disease.
People queue outside a tent erected to conduct testing for coronavirus at the Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. Some day saw hundreds of people arrive for testing, standing in line for several hours, in this case during a rain storm.
A person is unloaded from an ambulance near a loading dock at the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn.
A member of the the New York National Guard clasps a pack of paper towel ahead of a disinfecting mission at Young Israel of New Rochelle synagogue. A member of the congregation tested positive for coronavirus on March 3, resulting in a shutdown of the center and a 1 mile exclusion zone surrounding it.
A worker disinfects a carriage on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) service at a station in Hicksville, New York. New York’s reliance on public transport services such as the LIRR and the New York City subway were cited as major contributors to the disease’s rapid spread in the region.
The Oculus transportation hub is seen at 11:33 am on a Monday morning. A major transport, retail and tourist destination typically swarming with people, The Oculus stood mostly empty throughout the period that the stay at home order was enforced to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease.
A contractor disinfects an escalator leading into the Times Square subway station. A decision was made to close the subway system down from 1:00 am to 5:00 am in order to conduct cleaning of stations and carriages to fight the spread of coronavirus.
People stand with signs protesting U.S. President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as fireworks explode at the conclusion of the Republican National Convention in Washington, D.C.
People sit in circles painted on a lawn in Domino Park, Brooklyn. The circles were painted to encourage the act of social distancing, thought to be a method of preventing the spread of coronavirus.
People sit in squares, painted to promote social distancing, as they watch an outdoor screening of “Tootsie” at the Hudson Yards in Manhattan, New York City.
Public Safety Officers monitor beachgoers as beaches opened on Long Island ahead of the Memorial Day weekend. The officers enforced social distancing rules as well as other safety measures.
An early morning exerciser stretches amongst benches covered to promote social distancing along the boardwalk at Long Beach on Long Island. Beaches in the region opened ahead of the Memorial Day weekend with precautions in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease.
The Calvary Cemetery in Queens is seen empty against the backdrop of the Empire State Building. As coronavirus took hold, cemeteries enforced strict regulations, opening only to limited visitors in an attempt to stop the spread of the disease.