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A COVID Diary – NYC Shutdown

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Times Square, NYC - empty
Times Square, NYC – empty
Lincoln Centre, NYC - empty
Lincoln Centre, NYC – empty
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Empty Times Square, NYC
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Empty Central Park, New York City
Empty Central Park, New York City March 2020
Grand Central Station empty
Grand central
Grand Central Station, NYC
Grand Central Station, NYC March 2020
Metlife Building, New York City
Metlife Building, New York City
St. Patrick's Cathedral
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Empty Madison Avenue, NYC
Madison Avenue, NYC
Grand Central station, NYC
Grand Central station, NYC
Rockefeller Centre, NYC
Rockefeller Centre, NYC
Eleanor Roosevelt staying safe
Lunch empty Columbus Circle
Deserted Westside Highway, NYC
Empty Times Square
Lone skater, Times Square
empty New York City
Time Square, NYC
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Fifth Avenue, NYC. Empty
Lincoln Centre, New York City
Lincoln Centre, New York City. Empty March 2020
Grand Central Station, NYC - Empty
Grand Central Station, NYC – Empty
Times Square, NYC
72nd Street Subway station, NYC
72nd Street Subway station, NYC March 2020

Recent Posts

  • Three years and one pandemic later… August 18, 2023
  • The little engine that could August 28, 2021
  • Summer of Firsts July 15, 2021
  • Hope Springs Eternal June 29, 2021
  • Grand Openings and New Beginnings May 26, 2021
  • Homeschooling – RIP & other news April 27, 2021
  • Moderna Man March 24, 2021
  • Voice Call March 20, 2021
  • 500,000 February 23, 2021
  • Tunnel light & moving images January 31, 2021
  • A Pandemic Christmas December 23, 2020
  • Home Schooling – Part II. Lessons learned. December 6, 2020
  • Lines, Q’s & Coups November 25, 2020
  • Banana Republic November 2, 2020
  • Grand Openings and New Beginnings

    May 26, 2021 /

    July 1st sees the full re-opening of New York. For those of us who live here, it already feels like a new beginning. Almost everything is open. The only thing I can’t do is work in my office. I joined my company during the pandemic, so I’ve never actually met any of my new colleagues in person. But at this point, I’m “zoomed” out, so I’d relish a few optional days in the office later this year. An additional bonus includes finally discarding my mask since, per the CDC’s guidance, I’m fully vaccinated. Which couldn’t have come sooner. Because of the masks, I developed an unusual condition that felt like…

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    August 28, 2021
  • Moderna Man

    March 24, 2021 /

    Twelve months and one week after NYC was shutdown, I'm finally eligible to get my first shot....testimony to America's ingenuity

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    June 20, 2020

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    September 24, 2020

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    December 23, 2020
  • Voice Call

    March 20, 2021 /

    Voice call to all New Yorker's and those that love NYC. What's that you say? Tell me more...

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    August 10, 2020
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    November 25, 2020
  • 500,000

    February 23, 2021 /

    I have run by Javits Centre numerous times on my weekly workouts, still possible within midtown because traffic and people are still light on the ground, where they are supposedly deploying mass vaccinations. But each time I go by, there is no one there.

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  • A Pandemic Christmas

    December 23, 2020 /

    Fearing there wouldn't be any trees this year, I went and bought a fake one. The day it arrived, the Canadians set up shop down the block with their real trees.

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  • Home Schooling – Part II. Lessons learned.

    December 6, 2020 /

    13 things I learned from homeschooling....six hours of cartoons does not make a three year old cross eyed.

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    October 31, 2020 /

    ...making yearly traditions seem somewhat normal during a pandemic.

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    June 20, 2020
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    Three years and one pandemic later…

    August 18, 2023
  • Alternative Reality

    September 8, 2020 /

    When I started writing this blog, back when New York shut down in March, I and indeed everyone else, were dealing with the great unknown. There’s a virus and it may kill us all. My personal stories like this drove home that theory. People I knew were dying. And in the grimness of that reality, I felt two things. The need to find hope, even in the smallest of things like running. And a compelling need to document what we were experiencing for my kids, future generations and historians. I hate the fact that the issues that have recently beset the Upper West Side, where I live, have been co-opted…

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    November 25, 2020
  • Man with hammer

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    August 10, 2020 /

    "..here's a picture I took today of a man menacingly brandishing a hammer in the middle of Broadway on 79th street.....What started as a story about rightfully concerned parents worried about their family's safety has turned into a race / white privilege issue."

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    October 31, 2020
  • A Tombstone to the Past

    May 19, 2020 /

    I decided to film some of my runs to visually document what I was seeing. For like all things, this must end and when it does I hope it's a document to how things were during this extraordinary time. We can look back, nod and say bravely we survived this.

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