New York Post - 13.03.2020

New York Post, Friday, March 13, 2020

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outbreak

A slew of events and

institutions have been

postponed, canceled or shut

down..

nBroadway— Closed

indefinitely

nMuseums— The Metropolitan

Museum of Art (including Met

Breuer and the Cloisters) is

closed through at least March

31. MoMA, the Guggenheim, the
    Whitney, theFrick Collection
    and the American Museum of
    Natural History are closed until
    further notice.

nCarnegie Hall— Closed

through at least March 31

nMetropolitan Opera—

Closed through end of March

nNY-based talk

shows:Those hostedby

Stephen Colbert, JimmyFallon

and Seth Meyerswon’t tape

until at least March 30.

nArchdiocese of NY schools—

Closed March 16 until at least

March 20

nNBA, NHL, MLB and MLS—

Seasons suspended or delayed

nNCAATournament—

Canceled

Robert Miller

NYers ‘freaking out’ amid shopping frenzy

A panic-buying fever swept

through the city on Thursday

as mobs of shoppers frantically

scoured store shelves for any

remaining provisions amid the

coronavirus crisis.

“We’re freaking out about it,”

Monica Gang, 27, said at a

Trader Joe’s in Manhattan. “We

came in here looking for rice,

and there is no rice left. Rice

crumbs are the only thing left.”

The Costco in Sunset Park,

Brooklyn, got so swamped that

it shut the main gate of the

parking lot. Inside, shoppers

waited 40 minutes to check out.

“It’s hell in there,” said Simon

Cohen, 46, of Mill Basin, Brook-

lyn.

“There are something like 15

cashiers and people are lined up

all the way to the opposite wall.”

“I want to be prepared,” he

added. “I don’t want to be the

one laughing about this virus

and ending up with no food

when I need it.”

Alisa Roberts, 23, of Crown

Heights, Brooklyn, said that

Thursday marked her fourth trip

to Costco in the past 30 days.

“The only aisles without a lot

of carts are the ones that carry

makeup, plasticware and stuff

like that,” she said.

“Anything to do with food,

you can’t pass whatsoever.”

At the Whole Foods in Gowa-

nus, Brooklyn, aisles once

stocked with dry cereal, canned

food and bottled water were

largely cleaned out by 3:30 p.m.

“I did a shopping trip yester-

day and thought I was all set,”

said Adelia Erickson, 49, of

Park Slope.

“Then I made the mistake of

checking the news and seeing

lines of people in supermar-

kets, and paranoia got the best

of me,” she added. “So here I

am again.” Reuven Fenton,

Khristina Narizhnaya

and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

mad dash: The Costco in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, is packed with people stock-

ing up on food and other supplies Thursday, while Times Square is eerily quiet.

Paul Martinka