Larry Kramer, the noted writer whose raucous, antagonistic campaign for an all-out response to the AIDS crisis helped shift national health policy in the 1980s and ’90s, died on Wednesday morning in Manhattan. He was 84. His husband, David Webster, said the cause was […]
The shuttering of theaters has caused the dance world untold damage, yet there has been an upshot: the increased accessibility of high-end dance, as productions stream online, free. In a way, the moment harkens back to an earlier time, when the kind of dance […]
To the Editor: Re “U.S. Deaths Near 100,000, an Incalculable Loss” (front page, May 24): Thank you so much for this heartbreaking, breathtaking memorial. As a minister, I tell my congregants that memorializing someone is about much more than remembering the outlines of a […]
Though earlier research has shown chronic conditions like obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes are common risk factors for severe Covid-19, the ubiquity of serious medical conditions in these patients was striking: Only 6 percent of them had no underlying health conditions. “The number […]
City Council members Kendra Brooks, Jamie Gauthier and Helen Gym plan to introduce a package of bills aimed at keeping renters in their homes as the coronavirus pandemic takes an economic toll. “As city council members, we don’t have the authority to cancel rent […]
Amber Isaac, a 26-year old first-time mother, reportedly died shortly after giving birth to her son, Elias, at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. She apparently feared it might happen and even tweeted about it days before her unfortunate death. “She had mentioned to me that […]