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It’s Friday.
Weather: Rainy and cool, high in the mid-50s. Windy and chilly on Saturday, but nicer on Mother’s Day, with a high around 60.
Alternate-side parking: Suspended through Tuesday. Meters are in effect.
Social-distancing arrests: 35 are black, four Hispanic, one white.
Tensions are flaring in black and Hispanic neighborhoods over police officers’ enforcement of social-distancing rules, leading some prominent elected officials to charge that the New York Police Department is engaging in a racist double standard as it struggles to shift to a public health role in the coronavirus crisis.
The arrests of black and Hispanic residents, with several of the actions filmed and posted online, occurred on the same balmy days that other photographs circulated showing police officers handing out masks to mostly white visitors at parks in Lower Manhattan, Williamsburg and Long Island City. Video captured crowds of sunbathers, many without masks, sitting close together at a park on a Manhattan pier, uninterrupted by the police.
On Thursday night, the Brooklyn district attorney’s office became the first prosecutor’s office in the city to release statistics on social-distancing enforcement. In the borough, the police arrested 40 people for social-distancing violations from March 17 through May 4, the district attorney’s office said.
Of those arrested, 35 people were black, four were Hispanic and one was white.
More than a third of the arrests were made in the predominantly black neighborhood of Brownsville. No arrests were made in the largely white Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope.
[Travel from New York City seeded the wave of U.S. outbreaks.]
N.Y.C. may limit entry to parks to reduce crowds.
New York City may limit entry to some parks to prevent them from becoming too crowded as the weather warms and adhering to social-distancing rules becomes more of a challenge, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Thursday.
At some parks, Mr. de Blasio said, “just the configuration of the park lends itself to overcrowding.”
“We can’t let that happen, and we have to limit the number of people going in,” he said, adding that any such effort would require “experimentation.”
The mayor did not clarify which parks could be covered by the new rules, but he said more details would be announced on Friday.
“There’s not that many places, honestly,” Mr. de Blasio said. “But wherever that is the case, we’re going to work with a protocol to do that.”
With playgrounds closed and gyms shut amid the coronavirus outbreak, New Yorkers have flooded parks in search of a safe place to exercise and enjoy the outdoors while maintaining social distance.
[Coronavirus in New York: A map and the case count.]
A drug touted by Trump didn’t aid N.Y.C. patients, a study finds.
Hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug that President Trump has promoted as potentially effective in fighting the coronavirus, neither helped nor harmed virus patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Manhattan, researchers have reported.
As a result, the hospital is no longer recommending its use as a treatment for its virus patients.
The authors of the report, in The New England Journal of Medicine, said the drug should be used only in controlled clinical trials where patients were picked at random to get one treatment or another.
In the past several weeks, federal agencies and medical societies have issued safety warnings about hydroxychloroquine and a closely related drug, chloroquine.
Hydroxychloroquine is approved to treat malaria and the autoimmune diseases lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. But anecdotal reports from China and France early in the coronavirus pandemic suggested it might also help fight the virus. With no proven treatment, doctors around the world began to use it in a desperate bid to save dying patients. But there has been little evidence to support its use, and the French report was subsequently discredited.
The NewYork-Presbyterian study was not a controlled trial. It was based on the records of 1,376 patients admitted from March 7 to April 8, including 811 who got hydroxychloroquine.
The Mini Crossword: Here is today’s puzzle.
Will the coronavirus crisis crush New York’s tabloids? [Vanity Fair]
And finally: A virtual social weekend
The Times’s Melissa Guerrero writes:
Although most performance spaces, museums and community centers are closed, people are finding creative ways to connect through virtual events and programs. Here are some suggestions for maintaining a New York social life this weekend while keeping a safe distance from other people.
Angela Davis and Nikki Giovanni in conversation
On Friday at 7 p.m., the writers and political activists Angela Davis and Nikki Giovanni will discuss survival and radically honest self-care for black women. The event is part of a campaign by GirlTrek, a public health and self-care movement for black women, called #DaughtersOf.
The discussion will stream on GirlTrek’s Facebook page.
Hester Street Fair
The Lower East Side’s Hester Street Fair is going online. From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, get to know the vendors through 15-minute Instagram takeovers, and enjoy a “nostalgia-driven” dance party with a live set by D.J. Lolochung.
Take part in the event via the Hester Street Fair’s Instagram page.
Bubble T: Qwarant Queen Weekend
Bubble T, the New York-based collective, is celebrating Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with local creatives. Starting on Saturday at 1 p.m., Bubble T will host a variety show, live karaoke, cooking demonstrations (mapo tofu, bibingka and silog) and much more.
The weekend will end in usual Bubble T fashion: an epic after-party with D.J. sets and performances.
Metropolitan Diary: On Ninth Avenue
Dear Diary:
It was springtime and I was walking south on Ninth Avenue in search of a dinner spot with some relatives who were in the city from out of town.
Stopping at a light somewhere in the 50s, we saw a horse and carriage pull up at the intersection heading east.
The woman at the reins looked down at us from her perch. She was holding $5.
“Can you go in there and grab some carrots for my horse?” she said. “They’re right on the counter.”
“Sure,” I said.
The people in the store seemed to know the drill, and just after I returned with the carrots, the light changed and we were all on our way.
— Julia Wilson
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