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2021: The Second Pandemic Year

34 images Created 30 May 2021

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  • A discarded mask in Central Park on a cold January day, maybe someone’s attempt at symbolism or humor.
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  • A snowfall brought classic beauty to Central Park and children, adults, and dogs came out to play.
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  • Sal and Carmine's Pizza on Broadway and 102nd Street, a neighborhood favorite trying to stay open while fighting a pandemic, outdoor-only seating, and a snowstorm.
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  • A Tufted Titmouse eating a peanut from a woman's hand in Central Park as snow fell. Interest in birding and feeding birds exploded as safe outdoor activities during the pandemic.
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  • The Metropolitan Museum opened at a fraction of its normal capacity with time-limited tickets and mask requirements.
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  • Students from the Manhattan School of Music played jazz in Central Park on a sunny April day
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  • April 20: a model and a flowering tree in Central Park
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  • A family enjoying a warm April day in Central Park
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  • The Museum of Natural History, open again with time-restricted tickets, masks, and social distancing
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  • It almost looked like a normal spring day again in Central Park, if you could forget the past year.
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  • A little girl decorates her mother's face with cherry blossoms in Central Park. She probably had no memory of seeing adults without masks in her short life.
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  • May 2021: street performers are out again, like this masked juggler.
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  • Wrong Way? In May, people in New York began to venture outdoors without masks. Soon the CDC announced that unvaccinated people could go maskless both outdoors and indoors, but no one can tell who is vaccinated.
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  • Mother and daughter blowing bubbles in Central Park. Most parents have their young children wear masks outside since they are not vaccinated.
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  • May 22: Outdoor yoga class in Central Park. Dance and yoga studios adapted to pandemic closures by moving outside.
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  • The Mexican Festival Restaurant, a neighborhood bar and restaurant on Broadway and 102nd Street known for both a mariachi band and opera singers, closed permanently due to the pandemic
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  • So many stores closed permanently during the pandemic, like this convenience store on Broadway. On Election Day 2020, someone sprayed "Vote Trump" on its red-painted shutter. Later it was tagged with a graffiti handle.
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  • A drummer in a jazz group in Central Park lets his little boy try out the drums. Could this be the start of a musical career? The only live music in New York is outdoors during the pandemic.
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  • June 10: A mother and son crossing a street, still wearing masks. The CDC guidance allows for vaccinated people to go without masks outdoors, but children under the age of 12 have not been vaccinated.
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  • June: A fight director training actors in sword fighting for an outdoor production of King Lear. Live indoor theater was expected to return in the fall after over a year of theaters darkened by the pandemic.
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  • A couple pauses to take a selfie in a shaft of late afternoon light in Central Park
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  • Beaches opened again after widespread pandemic closures in 2020.
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  • A tribute to Barry, the beloved Central Park barred owl who lived in the park for 10 months before being killed by a park maintenance vehicle. The owl attracted adoring admirers and became a source of community and consolation for pandemic-weary New Yorkers.
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  • Firefighters listening to the reading of the names of firefighters who died in the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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  • Firefighters saluting at the Firemen’s Memorial on the 20th anniversary of September 11
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  • A sweet gum tree in autumn, Central Park
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  • Children in Halloween costumes on Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
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  • Chloe tracked her boyfriend Austin in the 2021 New York Marathon and reacted with joy when she spotted him near the 24 mile mark on Fifth Avenue. New Yorkers celebrated the return of the marathon after last year's pandemic cancellation.
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  • The three leaders of the 2021 New York Marathon near the 24 mile mark on November 7, 2021
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  • 20 years after the terrorist attacks, firefighters remembered their fallen comrades who died at the World Trade Center on that day and in the years thereafter.
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  • Almost two years into the pandemic, the sudden outbreak of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 showed the lack of Covid testing in stark relief.
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  • Canceled during the pandemic, the iconic Thanksgiving Day Parade returned this year in an atmosphere of celebration and relief.
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  • Christmas shopping in the pandemic
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  • This statue at a grave in the Green-Wood Cemetery almost looks like a portrait of the deceased woman, in mourning but yet hopeful. I think of the 800,000 Americans who have died in the pandemic so far and try to feel hope for the future.
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