Corona in New York: “We’ll get through

Every two to three days, the number of corona cases in New York state doubles; life in New York City is largely paralyzed. And yet the will to common resistance stirs under the shock.

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New York at a standstill? Hard to imagine, but superficially it seems that way. The corona pandemic has practically brought life in the metropolis to a standstill. You could speed all over Manhattan in twenty minutes by car, from Harlem all the way down to the South Ferry, the jetty across from the Statue of Liberty. Times Square is empty, Rockefeller Center and Brooklyn Bridge are deserted, only a few paper bags are blowing in Washington Square, it could also be prairie grass. No one on the university campus, no tourists on the viewing platforms, no horse-drawn carriage rolls through Central Park, even the homeless have disappeared from the streets.

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