PHOTO GALLERY: Social distancing and government orders restricting mass gatherings have emptied the streets of New York City. But homeless New Yorkers remain. One couple is doing their best to help them.
NEW YORK — Fearful glances from masked faces. Shuttered storefronts and silent bars. As confirmed cases of coronavirus infections have risen over 11,000 in New York City and its suburbs, the city that never sleeps has taken on an eerie gloom.
Along those lonesome sidewalks homeless New Yorkers remain, unprotected from the elements and a disease that passes swiftly between people often without any sign or symptom. “I’m working every day in the city because I’m working in the elevator construction,” said Guzman, 52, a native of Ecuador, on a cold Saturday morning in midtown. “I saw so many homeless. So that’s why I came home to my house and I told my wife, ’Listen, why don’t we do this? We have a lot of extra paper towels. We have extra gloves. We have extra wipes.”
“I always think about my kids,” said Virna Munoz-Guzman, 52, originally from Peru, who works in a supermarket upstate. “I think that maybe one day my kids might need something and somebody else will come and give it to them.”Despite requests that people remain at home, Guzman insists he and his wife take every precaution against contraction.
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