Times Square

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The lights still scream for attention, but on this night Times Square has the feel of an abandoned Hollywood film set. Gone are the hordes of tourists shooting selfies with Elmo and Wonder Woman. Instead, a lone SUV glides by and a passenger’s phone glows as…

Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city will beef up the number of medical staffers to monitor guests at an isolation hotel in Times Square where three men died over the weekend after recovering from COVID-19 at area hospitals.A “full review” into the deaths of the three men, ages 42,…

Back before our sense of normalcy was completely reset, 330,000 people used to pass through Times Square in New York City each day. Now it’s a ghost town. I took these pictures during a somewhat irresponsible outing to midtown Manhattan on Friday night. After being cooped up for weeks at…

Apple and Google’s common coronavirus contact tracing solution for smartphones has continued to attract a lot of attention and debate over the past week, and understandably so. It’s an unprecedented partnership between the world’s dominant smartphone operating system makers, but people are worried about privacy and the notion that tracking…

The state of New York has been deemed the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic – with nearly 225,000 cases and approaching 15,000 deaths so far, it’s the worst hit state in the US. In an eerie reflection of our times, the streets and tourist hot spots of New York City…

in Current Affairs, Travel | April 16th, 2020 1 Comment Advertisement The lack of human presence in majorly polluted cities these past couple months has had some people seeing utopias as the skies begin to clear. But empty cities seem a little more dystopian to me. Dystopias are “a kind…

Air pollution has dropped by 30% in the big cities of the Northeast over the past few weeks as the coronavirus pandemic worsened and people stayed home, according to NASA satellite data.In fact, cities such as Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City and Boston have seen significant improvement in air quality similar…

Empty streets. Abandoned city squares. Silent airports. The images made by German-born photographer Mat Hennek instantly evoke the Covid-19 pandemic that has shut down most of the world. Actually, though, Hennek began working on his Silent Cities series in 2013. Steidl's publication of a book of the images earlier this…

The CIA has privately advised its workforce that taking an anti-malarial drug touted by President Trump and some of his supporters as a promising treatment for the novel coronavirus has potentially dangerous side effects, including sudden death. The warning… Read More

The prominent landlord Aby Rosen, who controls the Chrysler Building, abruptly retreated from two major real-estate acquisitions in recent weeks as the pandemic crisis overtook New York City.The coronavirus has upended the city's $30 billion commercial-real-estate sales market and prompted buyers, sellers, and lenders to rethink transactions.Meanwhile, major institutions such…