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USAGAG — Yankees minor-league pitcher Denny Larrondo was the first professional baseball player to test positive for coronavirus, a source confirmed Monday. The 17-year-old right-hander from Cuba was signed by the Yankees in 2018 and pitched 12 games for the Yankees’ Gulf Coast League team last season. General manager Brian Cashman declined to comment on …
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Can’t get to the opera? The opera will come to you! The Met, which has been forced to cancel its performances in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, has given music lovers a gift: the chance to livestream its acclaimed “Live in HD” performances, starting Monday night with Bizet’s “Carmen.” Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, who was …
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Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are on the mend after testing positive for coronavirus last week. Five days after announcing they have coronavirus, the couple have left the hospital in Australia and are continuing their quarantine at a house they rented there, a rep for Hanks on Monday. The couple announced their diagnosis on social …
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The coronavirus is proving healthy for some city businesses. While fears over the epidemic have shut down everything from Big Apple schools to nightclubs amid mass self-quarantining, there are still a few enterprises that have not only survived, but thrived. Online booze-delivery services, car-rental firms and local bodegas are among the lucky ones, workers said …
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Nothing to laugh about here. Just days after “Vanderpump Rules” star Lala Kent joked that she’d only get coronavirus ahead of her April 18 wedding if God thought she needed some publicity, she decided to quarantine herself. “About to quarantine my ass off. This whole situation has been way too heavy. I’ll catch y’all when …
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Eliot Spitzer and fiancée Roxana Girand have canceled their big “raucous” New York wedding due to coronavirus. The former “Luv Gov” and Girand had planned a grand April 4 wedding with dinner and dancing at the Bryant Park Grill. A full weekend of events had been planned, including a bowling party the night before the …
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo delivers remarks at a news conference regarding the first confirmed case of coronavirus in New York, March 2, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have agreed to close all movie theaters, gyms, bars, restaurants, and casinos in the states …
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Hilary Duff has a very concise message for her millennial cohort: Stay at home and binge-watch. In a story posted to her Instagram this weekend, the “Lizzie McGuire” star told her followers to “go home” amid the spread of the coronavirus, which has prompted entire nations to sequester themselves indefinitely. “To all you young millennial …
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Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered New York City’s movie theaters to indefinitely shutter due to the coronavirus pandemic — but that didn’t stop one Park Slope cinema from sending an ongoing message to its patrons. “Be excellent to each other,” reads the eastern side of Nitehawk Cinema’s marquee. “See you on the other side,” …
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers remarks at a news conference regarding the first confirmed case of coronavirus in New York City, March 2, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) New York City mayor Bill de Blasio was seen entering the Park Slope, Brooklyn YMCA minutes before New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced the closure of …
USAGAG — Yankees minor-league pitcher Denny Larrondo was the first professional baseball player to test positive for coronavirus, a source confirmed Monday. The 17-year-old right-hander from Cuba was signed by the Yankees in 2018 and pitched 12 games for the Yankees’ Gulf Coast League team last season. General manager Brian Cashman declined to comment on …
