In less than a week we have seen Hilary Clinton have breakfast, Jodie Foster for dinner, the Beckhams shopping, David Guetta signing autographs and Tom Brady throwing a football. Also Donna Karan at the airport, Katie Holmes walking alone after her most recent breakup and Irina Shayk and Bradley Cooper taking walks with their daughter. New York, a mecca city of capitalist triumph, has managed to overcome the pandemic, it is once again the navel of the Western world and everyone wants to be seen there.
Back in the murky and bewildering days of confinement, New York suffered a rout never seen before. The rise of teleworking due to the pandemic, the fear that it would last much longer and in anticipation that similar episodes could be repeated in the future, made that hundreds of New Yorkers made the decision to leave the city in pursuit of free space. Above all, young families. It came to be called that New York was touched to death. But it has not been that way.
The unprecedented speed with which science managed to corner the Sars-CoV-2 virus and produce the first vaccine last November, changed everything again. Many of those who had their suitcases packed, spoke with their landlord to recant. Today, the city of skyscrapers shines again as always.
Within seven days, the streets of Manhattan have been filled with faces known to the entire world. From fashion to politics, from cinema to sports. Last Monday, May 24, while Tom Brady –legendary quarterback for the Patriots and today with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers– he threw a ball and his wife, Gisele Bündchen – the most famous top of the last two decades – went shopping, Irina Shayk got undone with her daughter, Lea, while the girl stroked a dog and then he gave it to his ex, Bradley Cooper, so that he could continue with the holiday. The model Karlie Kloss also took care of her son, still a baby, with an unusual style: one hand in the stroller and the other in the pocket.
On Tuesday the 25th who was pushing a cart was Sarah Jessica Parker but the modernized version of the supermarket classic, in which she carried some belongings and David Guetta solicitously signed autographs on his own stamp to a few fans hours before flying into the Miami sun.
The next day, Katie Holmes was walking alone – she recently broke up with Emilio Vitolo – while Ashley Graham starred in a photoshoot for a fashion brand. That same 26, Naomi Watts was walking sending and listening to audios on her smartphone and at night, Bill and Hilary Clinton went out to dinner with some friends.
On Thursday 27 Diane Kruger embodied the iconic picture of a busy New Yorker who crosses Manhattan with her coffee in a cardboard cup but the main protagonists were the Beckhams. Leaving the Pitti Bar for lunch, David forgot to put on his mask and it was his undoing: the entire terrace picked up their phones to take photos of the couple and even to greet them. The British star has caused a sensation in a city hardened in astonishing things since that blimp-sized gorilla took to the Empire State Building.
In the afternoon, Willow Smith was seen walking with her boyfriend and it was the actress Jodie Foster who closed the day having dinner with her son Charles and his partner. Finally, on the 28th it was Emilio Vitolo – Katie Holmes’ ex – who had dinner with Zoe Kravitz (Lenny Kravitz’s daughter), shortly after Blake Lively was seen walking with her family.
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