Broadway – im Deep sleep. The big steak restaurants – orphaned. The bars in Soho – barricaded. Schools, cinemas and public meeting places – closed. New York, American largest urban laboratory, starting today, Tuesday, is the direction in which more and more US metropolises are leveling themselves in the fight against the coronavirus crisis: shutdown.
Extensive emptying of the public space of its residents. So that the contagion curve (and that of the fatalities) does not take on Italian dimensions. “Our city is threatened like never before, we have to react to it with a war mentality,” says Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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