Back to Manhattan Today (First time since March 13)

[novemberslady]

Thanks for posting.
I used to live in Queens, just over the bridge, and was in the city almost daily.
I still miss it sometimes.

[GnuThere]

Gorgeous. Looks like a ghost town.

[Alberta's Child]

Thanks for the update!

I can't imagine your employer is going to be renewing their lease at that location. Paying top dollar for Manhattan office space and then having it open at 25% of its capacity after 4-5 months of a lockdown is ludicrous.

Just my two pesos here ...

[SamAdams76]

About the masks, I would say that close to 50% of New Yorkers take them off as soon as they hit the street. Now in the buildings, most everybody wears them, probably out of respect for the businesses and people inside. But once outdoors, they come right off much of the time. NYPD has already stated they will not enforce the silly law of wearing them everywhere in public.

I think eventually the whole face mask thing will just go away and everybody will pretend it was never such a big thing to begin with.

Wish I had taken some more pictures of my day today.

[SamAdams76]

It's a loss leader for us. We have over 500 offices around the world. But NYC is a prestige location, where no expense is spared. Like in London, Paris, Tokyo, etc.

Many other corporations have the same mindset. Having a footprint in NYC and other "elite" cities tells the world you are a player.

We'll see how that stands up over time now that the world has changed.

[livius]

Lonely, lonely sits the city
that once was full of people.

I’m not sure our civil society is ever going to come back. If any Freeper had ever been in Grand Central Station before this insane Marxist disease panic, you would know that you really couldn’t have seen more than a few feet in front of you because of all the people rushing to and from trains, heading for work or for dinner, or even just passing through and talking and looking around. Busy, busy, talking, talking. I loved it.

They used to have dances here in Grand Central under Giuliani and you could dance or stand on one of the balconies at the side, get a drink and watch everybody dressed up and dancing (waltzes, fox trots, etc. - just old traditional dances, not twerking).

Now we have an empty space with silent, masked people. How the heck did this happen? And so fast?

In any case, thanks for the report. Family members who still live there have told me much the same . If you go to Soho or parts of Fifth Ave. it’s all smashed and boarded up, but they appear not to have messed with Midtown that much.

[Vendome]

That is one weird photo...

[SamAdams76]

Nice post. Grand Central is probably my favorite place in the world. I've been working in NYC for years and I always ensure to take the "long way" through Grand Central either going to the office from my morning train or going to my train at the end of the day. I almost always think of Ayn Rand as well when walking through there.

I will never forget the evening of March 13, when I left my office and entered a nearly empty Grand Central. That was when I first realized how things were about to change. Little did I know that it would be over three months before I would see Grand Central again - and it would be just as empty, if not emptier.

[Vendome]

Columbus Circle is where the Trump International and Jon George are located.

Blocks away from Trump Tower and at the opposite end of the park

[Vendome]

Now that is an even weirder photo @ 8:15am

Never seen that before and never saw people looking like they worked at a morgue..

[Lisbon1940]

P.T. Barnum‘s hometown.

[SamAdams76]

That would be Bethel, CT

[Gay State Conservative]

I was in NYC in early/mid April..on a Saturday.I was visiting the daughter of a friend who lived on W181st.Took the train out of Greenwich...parking lot empty,train empty,Grand Central deserted,the A Train almost empty.

But that makes the Maoists at Rat Party Headquarters very happy indeed...bring the economy to its knees...bring us back not to 1933 but to 1833!

[Gay State Conservative]

Darien...the town where the teenagers drive Ferraris and the parents drive Bentleys.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I am somewhat shocked to read your good report. I watched NYC rioting for days and have been thinking it’s in a bad state. Do you have info about the encampment at City Hall?