Faced with the progression of the Covid-19, museums, theaters and restaurants are closing in the city that never sleeps.
Through Maurin Picard
In memory of New Yorkers, the city had never known this in 258 years: Tuesday, March 17, the traditional Saint-Patrick’s Day parade, the unchanging Irish holiday celebrated in Manhattan since 1762, was canceled, as the Chinese Year of the Rat ceremonies before her in Chinatown. At around 11 a.m., however, at the crossroads of the 44e Street in Midtown, they were three fans of the green Erin, Patrick Grennan, Coleen Brady and Richard McKenna, parading a little lonely with their binoculars and their crossed Irish American flags, braving the invisible virus on Fifth Avenue. Where they should have been applauded by two million passers-by, the usual crowd, a few isolated onlookers and the horns of the few municipal buses still in operation honored their tenacity. “The Irish had to walk up Fifth Avenue today, even though we were just a handful», Confides one of the three thieves.
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