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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…

Times Square, April 5, 2020, 6:32 a.m. “There’s usually so many people in Times Square, nobody notices what you’re doing,” says Seliger. “I jumped up on a little stand to take pictures and a cop driving by yelled, ‘Get out of the middle of the street!’”Waverly Place, March 29, 2020,…

A healthcare worker tends to a driver at a drive-through coronavirus testing site at the Westminster Mall. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)It has become a bleak morning ritual that gets worse each day: New York reached yet another peak in coronavirus deaths in 24 hours, Gov. Andrew Cuomo…

Tweets include the return of the dinosaurs, Godzilla and the Loch Ness monster About a week or two after several countries over the world imposed a partial or total lockdown, there were many posts on social media about how the reduction in human activity has resulted in the increased visibility…

In the world of tacky, tourist-trap t-shirts, the main themes of the coronavirus outbreak have already been decided: Toilet paper, hand-washing, and social distancing. Art Brands, a store that sells decals to vendors for screenprinting, has a bunch of designs for sale already. One shows Tony Montana with the quote…