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New York City: The Year 2020

46 images Created 2 Apr 2021

Looking back on the year 2020 in New York City: a quiet start followed by pandemic, protests, and politics.
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  • People enjoying a springlike day in January in Central Park, before anyone knew what was coming.
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  • The fourth annual Women's March in New York City, January 18, 2020
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  • January 18: The fourth annual Women's March, New York City. Many people brought their daughters to participate.
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  • NYPD Marching Band leading the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown, New York 2/9/2020
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  • Dragon dancers in the Lunar New Year Parade on Mott Street, Chinatown. The joyous holiday celebration took place in Chinatown on February 9-10, amid reports of a pandemic overwhelming Wuhan, China. Crowds were noticeably smaller than in previous years and tension was in the air. Unknown to everyone, the coronavirus was already spreading in New York City due to infected travelers returning from Europe.
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  • A marcher in the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown, New York expressing support for Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
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  • March 15, 2020 was the first day of lockdown in New York City. We all felt a sense of impending doom. Later we learned that thousands of lives could have been saved if the lockdown had begun two weeks earlier.
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  • On my first day out of self-isolation in the early days of the pandemic, I found a symbol of hope in this flowering tree in my neighborhood.
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  • A woman finding solace in the beauty of a magnolia tree during the lockdown
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  • People waiting to enter a food store on Broadway and 110th Street in April. This sight was new and strange then, but the strange thing was how quickly social distancing became familiar.
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  • A beloved coffeeshop near Columbia University shut down during the lockdown.
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  • On a spring Sunday during lockdown, few people ventured outside to the parks. This well-dressed woman on Riverside Drive wore a mask and gloves.
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  • A store selling cleaning products during the lockdown. These supplies became scarce when people feared that the coronavirus could be spread on surfaces.
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  • During lockdown in April the sirens echoed in the empty streets, day and night, every 10 minutes or so. Every siren represented another sick person struggling to breathe. Fear was palpable in the air.
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  • Rush hour on Broadway during lockdown, with no one exiting the subway station, no traffic, and only a solitary pedestrian and a pigeon.
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  • The popular Metro Diner on Broadway had survived the decline of diners by renovating and making its menu more upscale, but it was closed and empty during the lockdown.
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  • After gyms closed during lockdown, people found ways to exercise in the parks. This man did arm curls with a branch pruned from an apple tree in Riverside Park.
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  • Six feet apart: Social distancing on Broadway during the lockdown period in April 2020.
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  • The Air Force Thunderbirds and the US Navy Blue Angels honored those on the frontline of Covid-19 with a flyover on April 28, 2020
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  • Two men enjoying fresh oysters brought from Long Island during the lockdown. The bayman lost his business supplying restaurants and turned to individual customers to stay afloat.
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  • Firefighters at a three-alarm residential fire on West 101st Street, May 7. They do not wear surgical or cloth masks while at a fire because they are flammable.
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  • Signs advising social distancing appeared in the parks, like this one on the popular Central Park Reservoir running track. Not everyone paid attention.
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  • What you need to be a pizza delivery guy during the pandemic: Mask, helmet, gloves, smartphone, electric bicycle, spare battery, two Kryptonite locks, pizza bag, and backpack. Most of these dangerous and low-paid jobs are held by undocumented workers on the front lines of the pandemic.
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  • Girls playing on Riverside Drive during lockdown, May 29, 2020
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  • Noelle protesting the death of George Floyd in Harlem, New York City
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  • Masks for sale on Broadway. Not all pedestrians were wearing them.
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  • Socially distanced people waiting to enter luxury stores at Columbus Circle. The Shops at Columbus Circle boarded up their windows as a precaution against looting during a month of protests in New York City, but no looting occurred in this area.
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  • BLM Protesters in Harlem, June 14. There were daily protests for months in many areas of the city following the death of George Floyd.
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  • Black Lives Matter protesters in Harlem, June 14, 2020
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  • Part of a diverse crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in Harlem, June 14, 2020
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  • Ramon, a doorman on West End Avenue, saluting front line workers of the pandemic on June 18, 2020. Every day at 7:00 PM, people applauded, played musical instruments, or banged on pots from their windows to show appreciation for nurses, doctors, and other front line workers. This photograph was shown in the exhibit ICP Concerned at the International Center for Photography.
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  • A boy fishing in the Central Park Lake during the lockdown. With the boathouse shuttered, fishing was less successful because the fish no longer stayed near the edges of the lake to avoid the rowboats. Even the fish changed their behavior during the lockdown.
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  • Latin musicians celebrating Father's Day in Central Park
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  • Protesters heading toward Trump Tower on the Fourth of July, Columbus Circle, New York
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  • Prometheus and all of the statues at Rockefeller Center wore a mask
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  • Hedy, a Trump supporter from Brooklyn, waiting for the start of a rally in front of Trump Tower on July 12, 2020
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  • Restaurant in the Nolita section of Manhattan displaying Black Lives Matter sign
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  • Anastasia (far left) had her baby shower in Central Park on September 27. Born in Belarus, she was hosted by her friends from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. I told them that if women ran their countries there would be peace and friendship.
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  • A woman named Cebo wearing a decorative but medically useless mask at Bethesda Terrace, Central Park, New York September 27, 2020
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  • A popular French bistro on Broadway used sidewalk bubbles and a shelter to serve diners outside while New York City restaurants remained closed for indoor dining.
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  • People waiting for early voting in Manhattan in the November 2020 election. The wait was as long as four hours.
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  • On Election Day 2020, someone painted a pro-Trump message on a convenience store that shuttered during the pandemic. Any irony was unintended.
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  • November 2020: even after the deaths of tens of thousands of New Yorkers in the pandemic, some were still in denial.
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  • Jubilant people poured into the streets to celebrate the election of Biden and Harris on November 7, 2020 after the television announcement that they had won over 270 electoral votes.
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  • The popular cocktail bar Verlaine NYC on Rivington Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan remained closed during the holiday season due to pandemic restrictions on indoor dining.
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