Brooklyn residents are getting a horrifically intimate view of the coronavirus pandemic.
The city is transporting bodies openly and in broad daylight in a Sunset Park parking lot where rows of refrigerated trucks are being used for the storage of bodies as the coronavirus death toll continues to climb.
Passersby were stunned to watch corpses being moved Tuesday at the makeshift morgue, as the number of total coronavirus cases surpassed 171,700 and related deaths climbed to more than 19,100.
Paul Martinka“We saw a body transferred from one passenger vehicle to a minivan. It was horrific — right off of the bus stop in plain view of everybody,” said Ralph Loschiavo, who lives in Queens and was in the area to visit his office.
“We have this makeshift morgue here; I can’t believe this is New York City.”
Trailers line a Second Avenue lot, stretching from 36th to 39th streets, as the city struggles with mounting COVID-19 deaths. The site is being managed by the city medical examiner’s office.
City Hall told The Post Monday that the site includes both trucks being used to hold dead bodies and also empty trailers kept there for storage. As of Monday, 30 percent of the trucks were filled.
“I just wished we had better management on top — meaning our mayor, our governor — I thought we had better personnel and had better supplies to handle something like this,” Loschiavo said. “It’s appalling.”
