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My Neighbor, My Pandemic Pal
Coronavirus precautions have made it harder for people to spend time with friends and family. For some, neighbors are filling the gap.
“We started out our friendship by doing walks,” said Judy Fein, left, with her neighbor, Serga Nadler.Credit.Katherine Marks for The New York Times
By Joanne Kaufman
Published Jan. 22, 2021Updated Jan. 24, 2021
When New York went into lockdown last spring to help stem the spread of the coronavirus, it was a rough time for Judy Fein, a retired psychotherapist who lives alone in an Upper East Side co-op.
“It wasn’t just my children I couldn’t see easily during the pandemic,” Ms. Fein, 74, said. “I love to have dinner parties and I use my apartment for fund-raisers, and obviously I haven’t been able to do that. I was feeling socially deprived and I’m not very good on the phone. To me, that’s not socializing.”