Nice house where the ailing live

On a beautiful sun-splashed March afternoon, the shades were pulled down tight inside the Windsor Tudor-style house.

The New Rochelle residence emerged Wednesday as ground zero for New York’s growing cases of coronavirus, with a suburban mom and her two kids quarantined inside while their family patriarch remained hospitalized with the dangerous illness. The dad, a Manhattan lawyer, is now linked to nine new cases of the disease — all in their Westchester County town.

“It’s very scary,” said local resident Tamara Ellis, 48. “It felt extremely close to home.”

A car driving down the infected family’s street slowed to about 10 mph as the two women inside pulled their shirts over their mouths while gawking at the brick home where family members gathered after all tested positive for coronavirus. The father was listed in critical condition at a Manhattan hospital.

Neighbor Robert Kent, an 82-year-old retired lawyer, said he felt bad for his housebound neighbors but worried about the virus already responsible for 3,200 deaths worldwide.

“It’s more of a question of how much did he spread it,” Kent said of the victim. “He took the train to work. You have no idea how many people he came into contact with.”

Other neighbors were more upset by the arrival of the media in their city of 73,000 people.

“You should’t be here,” one of several women taking a power walk through the neighborhood told a reporter.

There were two visitors to the home Wednesday. One was a delivery guy toting a bagful of food. The other was a silver-haired woman dropping off a care package inside a fancy green bag.

Neither had much to say.