Photos: New York brought to a standstill by coronavirus

Two Lincoln Center security officials walk in front of the Metropolitan Opera box office Thursday, March 12, 2020, in New York after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo temporarily banned gatherings of more than 500 people. Most of Lincoln Center's performance space,s including the Met Opera, shuttered their doors Thursday after the ban was announced.

A check-in area at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Last week, an international airline group estimated that the coronavirus could wipe out as much as $113 billion in airline revenue worldwide, a forecast made before President Donald Trump’s travel restrictions on Europeans and other limits by countries including Israel, Kuwait and Spain.

A few visitors walk through an exhibit of American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. New York continued grappling with the new coronavirus, as case numbers, school closings and other consequences grew.

Madison Square Garden is shown after NCAA college basketball games in the men's Big East Conference tournament were cancelled due to concerns about the coronavirus in New York. The major conferences in college sports have all cancelled their basketball tournaments because of the new coronavirus, putting the celebrated NCAA Tournament in doubt.

Clean tables await customers at the Eden Wok restaurant in New Rochelle, New York.. The owner, Josh Berkowitz, said he only had one couple dine in the restaurant today. State officials have set up a “containment area” in the New York City suburb, where schools and houses of worship are closed within a 1-mile radius of a point near a synagogue where an infected person with coronavirus had attended events.

Tourists Gabby Vela and her husband, of San Antonio, bring a pizza back to their hotel in New York's Times Square area near Broadway. The couple said they purchased the masks at Home Depot.

A sign announcing the suspension of all Broadway shows is posted on a door at the Minskoff Theatre, where "The Lion King" had been playing in New York.

Roxy Diner manager Sam Aboud, left, and employee Marie Tsotsonova study their cell phones in an empty restaurant across the street from the Majestic Theatre near Times Square in New York. Aboud said it's a big loss financially for the area.

A poster advertising "The Phantom of the Opera" is shown on the shuttered Majestic Theatre on a nearly deserted side street near Times Square in New York. he ban for Broadway theaters started Thursday and will be in effect through April 12, according to a statement from the Broadway League, an organization of theater owners and producers.

The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where the musical Tina is performed, is closed in the Times Square neighborhood.

A view of an empty Metro North train platform at Grand Central Terminal during rush hour in New York City. As the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread in the United States, many professional events have been canceled and some businesses are starting to have their employees work from home.

A digital signs reads "Park Closed" at the entrance to Glen Island Park in New Rochelle, New York. Members of the National Guard have arrived in New Rochelle to clean institutions and deliver food to the more than 120 sick residents within the three mile containment area.

Saxophonist and recording artist Isaiah RIchardson Jr. performs for donations from visitors, arriving and leaving the Metropolitan Museum of Ar in New York. The Met has announced it will be closing its doors Friday to aid in stopping the spread of the new coronavirus.

A trader has his head in his hand on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The stock market had its biggest drop since the Black Monday crash of 1987 as fears of economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis deepened. The Dow industrials plunged more than 2,300 points, or 10%.