Due to the exponential growth of COVID-19 in NYC, especially in the Queens, Brooklyn and Bronx, the city needs to be locked down to stop the spread of the virus. We should follow New Rochelle’s model, which was the epicenter of COVID-19 in New York State, where the number of confirmed cases has dropped dramatically. The sooner we conduct a complete quarantine in NYC, as President Trump suggested, the faster we will overcome the pandemic.