How the pandemic changed New York

The city, which according to Frank Sinatra never sleeps, continues to dawn in the Corona crisis. Tourists stay away, business owners give up, and just disinfecting the subway and buses costs huge sums of money.

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There are temperatures of minus two degrees on a dark winter evening in Manhattan, an arctic wind is blowing. People sit outside, drink and eat. “Instead of Corona, we will all die of hypothermia,” says a young woman to her friend as the two of them pass a street in the West Village that is particularly densely populated with open-air restaurants. Eating indoors has been banned in New York since mid-December. Since then, this involuntary type of adventure gastronomy has been perfected: dining in the freezing cold.