An East Village man spent nearly two months in the hospital battling COVID-19 — and when he returned home, he found his front door padlocked and his apartment almost completely empty.
Rao Nagaoka was hospitalized on Jan. 27 with COVID, after he was found on the floor of his fifth-floor walk-up, crying for help. As his condition improved, the 60-year-old was moved to a rehabilitation center to help him regain strength in his legs.
On Wednesday, Nagaoka returned home. When he went to use his key to open his door, it didn’t work — the locks had been changed. When the building’s superintendent finally got there to open the
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