I took this photo of
Bryant Park on Monday just
before walking down towards the Garment District to meet a couple of friends
for lunch. Since the New York City government did a major clean-up of the park
a couple of decades ago, it has become one of Gotham’s favorite places to relax
outside, with those trees providing shade and the main branch of the New York
Public Library and those skyscrapers serving as an imposing backdrop on the
scene.
It was not until a couple of days later that New York
announced its dramatic rollback of COVID-19 restrictions, but I think it’s obvious
from this photo that many New Yorkers feel more comfortable being out with each
other. Over the next several weeks, we’ll see how much of this is premature
overconfidence and how much is reasonable certainty that the scourge of this
disease is being pushed irretrievably back. Let’s hope it’s the latter.
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