Even the water no longer flows. The basins of the 9/11 Memorial, which marks the old twin towers and commemorates the dead, are dry. The square is cordoned off and a lonely worker is sweeping up leaves. The wind howls between the glass facades of the skyscrapers.
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It has not been so quiet, empty, and eerie here in New York City for years. Since that fall of 2001 that buried Manhattan in mourning.
In fact, it’s kind of like it was back then, after the terror. The wide avenues are eerily empty, the tourist attractions locked, the restaurants, bars, theaters and museums closed.
Even the perseverance slogans are similar. “The city,” proclaims Mayor Bill de Blasio, “has to continue.”
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New York in deep sleep
She has to, and at the same time the city, which according to Liza Minelli never sleeps, reluctantly falls into a deep slumber overnight. Only that this is neither a fairy tale nor a song, but the reality of the corona crisis. New York, New York!
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Like the rest of the world, the most populous city in the USA is now bunkering and becoming the largest ghost town in the country. She fought for a long time that one had to do business, meet people, and live life. But in the end there was no other way, in the shadow of the super towers of the super rich, who have long since disappeared to their beach villas in the Hamptons, two months before the start of the season and far away from the virus – at least they believe.
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