Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - Postcards from New York: West Twenty-seventh Street & Eighth Avenue.

When you visit you’ll notice things aren’t the same this year as they were last year. This is old news but you should be prepared for the changes all the same. You won’t even get hints of what the city was like before. Maybe an eighth of the people who would just be out and about and doing things are now out and about and doing things. Weekends are slow; Sundays especially so. Keep everything in perspective. Although the memory of the virus’ arrival in New York in March feels as though it happened five, maybe ten years ago, it was just this past March –––– nine months ago. Nine months in the lifetime of this city is a blink, so it’s still taking time. And it will still take quite some time. There’s word that the vaccines are ready and that they’ll be distributed in small rounds before the end of the year. Though this is promising, it’s not everything. It’s true that New York the untouchable and indestructible has fallen. It’s also true that it can and it will get up.