Dispatches from the Epicenter
Few journalists spent more time in the field during the COVID-19 pandemic than Gary He, who reported from the trenches alongside New York City’s restaurant workers from the uncertain early days in March 2020 until the final lockdowns during the winter of the Omicron variant.
Selected Stories:
How One New York City Restaurant Fought to Survive
Three months inside Saigon Social, a Vietnamese restaurant on the Lower East Side that has only ever existed in a pandemic-era limbo
November 30, 2021
December 22, 2020
August 13, 2020
June 16, 2020
May 11, 2020
Eater:
Street Vendors Still Serving NYC’s Food Swamps During the Pandemic
May 1, 2020
April 17, 2020
March 27, 2020
People Crowd Carbone’s Sidewalk, Forcing Police Action
March 23, 2020
