Archives for April 2020

The global spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is generating unprecedented delays, disruptions and uncertainty on construction projects. Travel restrictions, social distancing and quarantines are increasingly disrupting supply chains, contractor workforces and the availability of governmental personnel for project inspections, with resulting delays and increased costs. This article offers guidance to developers and owners dealing […]

Affordable housing is exempt from a state mandate to pause all non-essential construction in New York. But developers across the five boroughs, where city officials have cleared 354 projects with below-market-rate units to move forward, are facing a moral dilemma: Just because they can push on with construction, should they? Initially, Gov. Andrew Cuomo deemed all construction essential as the novel coronavirus inundated […]

New York state will adjust its COVID-19 death toll reporting to include presumed or probable cases in accordance with new CDC guidelines, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. He said his team was contacting health facilities to get updated numbers, though it wasn’t immediately clear when that data would be available. As for confirmed deaths, New […]

New York City’s death count has spiked to more than 10,000 after it reported 3,778 people who likely had Covid-19, but died without being tested. Firefighters and paramedics had been recording drastic increases in deaths at home around the city, assumed to be caused by the virus. The new figures, from the city’s Health Department, […]

As bleak a milestone in the pandemic as the new figures are, unconfirmed cases are believed to be far higher. More than 130,000 people have died from Covid-19. As cases top 2 million worldwide, some countries ease lockdowns and others brace for worse. The coronavirus pandemic passed 2 million confirmed infections and 130,000 deaths worldwide on Wednesday […]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is extending New York’s stay-at-home order to May 15 to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus. The stay-at-home order, called “New York on Pause,” extends to schools and all nonessential businesses and workers. It was set to end on April 29. The state’s social-distancing guidelines — remaining home as much as […]

Project teams in New York City may be fined up to $10,000 if found working on non-essential or non-emergency construction—or if workers on projects that are allowed to continue don’t practice social distancing to prevent spread of the novel coronavirus, say new city Dept. of Buildings protocols. The New York state fine, announced by Gov. […]

In the past week, construction in New York City has largely ground to a halt after Gov. Andrew Cuomo deemed most work on buildings and other sites nonessential in an effort to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. “We’re closing down nonessential construction sites,” Cuomo said at the time. “Some construction is essential to keep the […]

New Jersey and Connecticut also had one-day highs in coronavirus-related deaths. Officials in the three states still saw reason for hope. New York, New Jersey and Connecticut see one-day death spikes. Five weeks into the coronavirus outbreak, officials in New York and New Jersey, the two states hit hardest by the pandemic, hoped that the […]