March 27, 2020, By Michael Dorgan

Council Member Robert Holden, whose district covers portions of Woodside, Maspeth and surrounding areas, is calling on the mayor to help essential workers who fear contracting COVID-19 and bringing it home and infecting their loved ones.

March 26, 2020, By Michael Dorgan

Elmhurst has become the epicenter of the coronavirus with many residents being infected, according to a doctor who has worked at Elmhurst Hospital for 20 years and has dealt with a flood of patients this month.

March 26, 2020 By Allie Griffin

Queens Council Member Francisco Moya sent a desperate plea to President Donald Trump today asking the federal government to send more resources to Elmhurst Hospital.

March 26, 2020 By Allie Griffin

More and more New Yorkers are dying from the coronavirus and the virus has killed more residents of Queens than any other borough.

March 26, 2020 By Allie Griffin

A stretch of 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights will be closed to traffic and opened to pedestrians Friday in order to promote social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic.

March 26, 2020 By Christian Murray

Church parishioners throughout Queens and Brooklyn are contracting the coronavirus and the Diocese of Brooklyn is releasing the names of the churches where those who have the virus recently attended.

March 26, 2020 By Allie Griffin

New York City will release 300 more inmates from Rikers Island amid fears of the coronavirus spreading across the sprawling jail facility.

The city’s public Elmhurst Hospital in Queens has been overrun with seriously ill coronavirus patients — including 13 who died in a 24-hour span, officials said Wednesday.

A spokesperson for the city public hospital systems said Elmhurst is “at the center of this crisis,” and that the number of deaths recorded between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon was consistent with the crush of patients.

March 25, 2020 By Allie Griffin

New York City parks and playgrounds will continue to remain open — as long as people adhere to social distancing rules and avoid group sports, Governor Andrew Cuomo said today.

March 25, 2020 By Christian Murray

A founding partner of the Queensboro FC has been able to use his business contacts to acquire 1,000 surgical masks and donate them to Elmhurst Hospital.

March 24, 2020 By Allie Griffin

The rate of new coronavirus cases is doubling every three days in New York State and the apex of the crisis is expected to hit in about two-to-three weeks, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today.