The Covid Entries
The Covid Entries offer daily reports of the pandemic’s harsh surge in New York City in early spring 2020. The 56 entries provide real time observations of the early weeks when disease and fear transformed the city.
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First Entry | deaths with no funerals
Second Entry | a true crisis
Third Entry | trash in empty streets
Fourth Entry | fire drill for the apocalypse
Fifth Entry 🔊 | new territory
3/21 Audio Grocery lines, spring blossoms, and barbershops. 5 min.
Photo: March 21st, 2020
Sixth Avenue
Sent 4/12/20
SPECIAL Entry - Easter | boarding up essential work
Sixth Entry | calls from around the country
Seventh Entry | communicated with a glance
Eighth Entry | stock market up two thousand points
Ninth Entry | a biker's paradise
Tenth Entry 🔊 | uniquely ill-equipped
3/27 Audio Spring Street, Oculus, Hurricane Sandy. 6 min.
Photo: March 27th, 2020
Prince Street
Originally sent 4/24/20
Eleventh Entry | flimflamery
Twelfth Entry | a level of unknown
Thirteenth Entry 🔊 | the audible spectrum
Fourteenth Entry 🔊 | gatherings are evaporating
3/31 Audio Springtime, flowering trees, six feet apart. 3 min.
Photo: March 31st, 2020
Sixth Avenue
Sent 5/2/20
Fifteenth Entry | what does it take to change a place?
Sixteenth Entry | one cannot live forever
Seventeenth Entry 🔊 | some things change more quickly
4/3 Audio 1
Eye contact, clang – clunk, a train car to yourself. 6 min.
4/3 Audio 2
Tulips, kindly garbage trucks, mood shift. 2 min.
Photo: April 3rd, 2020
West 21st Street
Sent 5/8/20
Eighteenth Entry | plans and endings
Nineteenth Entry | singular sound
Twentieth Entry | the same place and a different place
Twenty-first Entry | "chance operation"
Twenty-second Entry | normal now needs to be defined
Twenty-third Entry 🔊 | new term - "social distancing"
4/9 Audio April showers, seeing the wind, horn honk. 2 min.
Photo: April 9th, 2020
MacDougal Street
Sent 5/20/20
Twenty-fourth Entry 🔊 | urban isolation chamber
4/10 Audio Goldberg variations, prelude 1, interlude in a quiet city. 3 min.
Photo: April 10th, 2020
Rent Bill
Sent 5/22/20
Twenty-fifth Entry | cigarette butts
SPECIAL Entry - Mid
Twenty-sixth Entry | a darkly cloaked gift
SPECIAL Entry - Post-Break
Twenty-seventh Entry | covid dreams
Twenty-eighth Entry 🔊 | gasoline under $2.00 per gallon
4/14 Audio Tax day, Jefferson Market Library, six bells. 1 min.
Photo: April 14th, 2020
Broome Street
Sent 6/23/20
Twenty-ninth Entry | eating a bush
Thirtieth Entry | losing a simple human gesture
Thirty-first Entry | a familiar strangeness
Thirty-second Entry | illegal jogging
Thirty-third Entry | one's heartbreak is another's delight
Thirty-fourth Entry | you cannot make this stuff up
Thirty-fifth Entry | savoring an absence
Thirty-sixth Entry | morgue trucks keep humming
Thirty-seventh Entry | throwing things away
Thirty-eighth Entry | the non-reversing mirror
Thirty-ninth Entry | freedom over saftey
Fortieth Entry | injecting disinfectants
Forty-first Entry | food insecure
Forty-second Entry 🔊 | defense production and pork
4/28 Audio Flowering trees, NYC as a village, Soho’s next chapter. 3 min.
Photo: April 28th, 2020
Prince Street
Sent 9/20/20
Forty-third Entry 🔊 | the crystal ball is cloudy
4/29 Audio Late night, out of balance, Mister Mister can I have a dollar. 2 min.
Photo: April 29th, 2020
Avenue C
Sent 9/24/20
Forty-fourth Entry | cloud of safety, blanket of fear
Forty-fifth Entry 🔊 | some things do not change
5/1 Audio Popular restaurants, Washington Sq Park skating sink, flags at half mast. 2 min.
Photo: May 1st, 2020
Mott Street
Sent 10/2/20
Forty-sixth Entry | this place may need noise
Joker
4/1 Audio Popular restaurants, Washington Sq Park skating sink, Flags at half mast. 2 min.
Photo: May 1st, 2020
Spring Street
Sent 10/6/20
Forty-seventh Entry | a delightful unnecessary transaction
Forty-eighth Entry | the lower east river
Forty-ninth Entry | another lesson of what is essential
Fiftieth Entry | information is a kind of noise
Fifty-first Entry | the soundscape continues to expand
Fifty-second Entry 🔊 | how we adapt reveals who we are
4/1 Audio Popular restaurants, Washington Sq Park skating sink, Flags at half mast. 2 min.
Photo: May 7th, 2020
Eighth Avenue
Sent 10/30/20