The Winners Of The NPR Student Podcast Challenge
With entries from 46 states and Washington, D.C., two winners emerge from more than 2,200 podcasts to win this year's NPR Student Podcast Challenge.
New York City
De Blasio Expects New York City To Head Back To Work Next Month
The epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. has spent weeks under strict restrictions. But the mayor says up to 400,000 people will likely return to their jobs soon — with some conditions.
Reckoning With The Dead: Journalist Goes Inside An NYC COVID-19 Disaster Morgue
Time magazine reporter W.J. Hennigan embedded with workers responsible for caring for the bodies of some 20,000 New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19. "It's a haunting thing," he says.
In New York City, 2 Million Residents Face Food Insecurity, Officials Say
"Before the coronavirus, we thought somewhere around a million people were food insecure and needed food," Mayor Bill de Blasio said. Now, 1 in 4 New Yorkers may be going hungry.
From Medical School To Fighting COVID-19 On The Front Lines At Bellevue Hospital
Gabrielle Mayer graduated from medical school early to help out with coronavirus patients in New York City. Some of her patients have died, she says. But there have been small, profound moments.
New York Extends Stay At Home Order, Allows Some Areas To Begin Reopening
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is extending the state's stay at home order to May 28. Some areas of the state have been given the green light to enter Phase One of reopening beginning Friday.
Wanted In New York: Thousands Of COVID-19 Contact Tracers
Starting this month, health departments in New York are trying to hire thousands of workers to build up what could become one of the country's largest contact tracing programs for the coronavirus.
New York City Is Latest To Close Some Streets To Cars, Making More Space For People
The move to limit car access on seven miles of streets comes amid pressure to allow more room for people to exercise while maintaining social distance to stem coronavirus transmission.
A Family Mourns The Husband And Father Who Died Alone, 3,000 Miles Away
Guillermo Frestan had hoped to bring his wife and children from Nicaragua to live with him in the Bronx this year. He is one of more than 1,400 New Yorkers who have died at home during the pandemic.
NYC Emergency Room Physician Who Treated Coronavirus Patients Dies By Suicide
"She tried to do her job and it killed her," Dr. Lorna Breen's father said of the 49-year-old doctor, who contracted the coronavirus. His daughter was a hero, Dr. Philip Breen says.