Happy to hear it...that you are fine, that is.
You can confirm the report how? Are you working in a NYC morgue these days, or have an honest cousin who is?
These are the numbers reported by the Departement of Health of NY State
https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Tracker/NYSDOHCOVID-19Tracker-Map?%3Aembed=yes&%3Atoolbar=no&%3Atabs=nAs I said, you are the one making an extra-ordinary claim that these numbers are inflated and as such, you need to provide extra-ordinary evidence to support it.
Videos of empty spaces (in a context of orders of social distancing) and your buddy does not constitute extra-ordinary evidence. It's in fact, no evidence at all.
Worse still, it's just a familiar strand of contrarian view you adopt to just about anything that happen. It's to be expected and as such, you are only reliable in the sense that you will always default to claiming all is a lie, regardless of the circomstances or evidence. You are like a clock, reliable to show 12:00 when you plug it in, but not reliable to tell the time.
I really loath that you deny that there is right now and in the coming days, weeks, true suffering and pain happening at such a large scale that we have never seen in our lifetime.
Here is a report on temporary NY morgues (because regular ones have been insuffisciant and for a while now) that your buddy seem to have missed during his daily strolls:
https://time.com/5812569/covid-19-new-york-morgues/