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The City That Never Sleeps Until it Did
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The City That Never Sleeps Until it Did
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One night in April, around 8 P.M, a few friends and I decided to go on a bike ride. We rented Citi Bikes and biked all the way from the East Village up to 5th Avenue, one of the most popular and famous streets in Manhattan. On a typical day, 5th Avenue would be overrun with people shopping, going to restaurants, leaving their office, or exploring the tourist sites in the area. The streets themselves would jammed with traffic as commuters and tourists alike try to get to other parts of the city via car, taxi, or bus. However, once New York City shutdown in March, the bustling city that we knew disappeared. Streets were empty all day, empty enough that I felt comfortable biking on one of the busiest roads of the city. I had never seen a New York like this, and am unlikely to see it like this again in my lifetime. What was once the epicenter of art, food, technology, culture, and tourism was now a desolate ghost town.
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English
Cities & Suburbs
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Environment & Landscape
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Transportation
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Public Space
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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
08/02/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
08/12/2020
12/08/2020
Date Created (Dublin Core)
04/02/2020
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This item was submitted on August 2, 2020 by Olivia Miles using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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