While WNBC reporter Adam Kuperstein has been working tirelessly in New York City covering the coronavirus crisis, the pandemic hit close to home.
He wrote on Instagram that his father died in the hospital “with a stranger holding his hand” after getting sick.
The Emmy Award-winning reporter and weekend anchor for WNBC paid tribute to his father, who “made sacrifices for his family and taught his boys how to become gentlemen, never asking for anything in return. Just love.”
My dad died with a stranger holding his hand.
With his wife of 43 years forced to stay inside their home, all alone.
With his sons, stuck in the epicenter of this crisis, where never-ending sirens echo throughout a deserted city.
All we could do was listen on the phone (from our separate quarantines), choking back tears, as the nurse informed us, “his heart stopped.” That’s when our hearts broke.
In his Instagram post, Kuperstein shared the last picture he took with his parents, writing that his dad “came to this country with nothing, the son of Holocaust survivors, and achieved so much.”
