[The Guardian] Desolate New York: eerie photos of a ghost metropolis

Desolate New York: eerie photos of a ghost metropolis

Covid-19 has struck New York – and the world’s most dynamic city has become something strange and unsettling

“It is a miracle that New York works at all,” EB White once wrote. “The whole thing is implausible.”

Every New Yorker instinctively understands the truth of that observation. The city’s infrastructure is a disaster; its apartments are famously tiny; everything is overpriced; there are too many people in too small a space; and the whole city will one day have to reckon with the ravages of an encroaching sea.

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