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Collected Item: “The Empty Streets of Time Square”

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The Empty Streets of Time Square

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“A pedestrian crosses a nearly empty street in Times Square, New York's most-visited tourist attraction, on Wednesday, April 1.”

The bright lights and advertisements bordering the streets have no people or tourists to hypnotise and blind. The usual busy streets of New York are almost completely vacant. I personally felt like the world was literally ending. There was no aggressive honking from impatient drivers, no yelling from pointless arguments on the street. Only the sparse pedestrians, the singular car, but nothing else. Everything was closed.

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https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/15-photos-of-new-york-city-during-coronavirus-from-empty-times-square-to-a-deserted-subway

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Article by Caitlin Morton, Picture from Pinterest

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2020-04-12
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