For the past few weeks, residents of the facility have expressed fears they'd become vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic. On Saturday, one of them was discovered dead in his room.
NEW YORK — On a rainy recent afternoon, a man in his late 60s with a noticeable limp stood in the middle of a normally busy intersection in downtown Manhattan holding a handwritten cardboard sign.
Sign up for our Coronavirus Updates newsletter to track the outbreak. All stories linked in the newsletter are free to access. In her 90′s and disabled, she had no easy way to eat; this was her best shot. She had gotten about halfway there, going about two blocks in 20 minutes, when she encountered a Post reporter, who told her that, sadly, the KFC was not open.She turned and walked back to the SRO. The only food she ate that day was an egg-salad sandwich given to her by a stranger. One week later, another resident, Nick, encountered her visibly hungry in a common kitchen area. “I have nothing to eat,” she told him.
No further isolation measures appeared to have been taken as of mid-afternoon Saturday, three hours after the man was found, with no senior staff besides the live-in superintendent, Rudolph Peart, on site.The man who died, who according to public records had previously lived in Brooklyn, was known as a friendly personality. He enjoyed playing basketball, said one tenant who knew him.
“VOA continues to monitor aggressively, to communicate with clients, to identify signs and symptoms to look out for, and to connect anyone who needs it to hospital care," it said. Cruceta said, in response to inquiries, that soap dispensers would be added; she also cited the hiring of a temporary custodian.
A spokesman for the national VOA in Alexandria, David Burch, referred questions about the 12th Street SRO to the New York group.
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