N.Y.C. Streets Under Quarantine | The New Yorker
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Scenes from a day of weirdness in quarantine in New York City as New Yorkers socially distance to avoid spreading the coronavirus. Times Square, Grand Central Station, subways, and streets appear eerily empty while the residents of the five boroughs have taken shelter at home to curb the outbreak of COVID-19.
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This footage deserves to be saved and preserved for the future as historical reference.
duh. there's a lot of that happening bro
I hope they're getting lots of hd footage without people for apocalypse movies
in this Quarantine, i'm planning to watch a movie with my girlfriend. please suggest a good girlfriend.
Agreed
W.P. You say that like it’s a bad thing it for a good cause
The Gent playing the Sax played Happy Birthday to my wife;s 50th in Jan 2019. Hope he manages this terrible time for a street artist. God Bless Him
That dude obviously identifies himself as essential
@@average.6079 Sory. I understand. We wish all of you good health, happiness and hope that our common efforts will make the world where we live more secure and safer for the benefit of all humanity.
I will delete the link
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@@average.6079 Jesus dude, be kind, huh? Lmao
*gods
Sad, but strangely beautiful...
I am legend vibes.
@@walkingintruthknowledge7418 definitely
Ben Marbury Couldn’t agree more.
We are experiencing one of those rare, but inevitable moments in time. We haven't a clue to where this will take us, there was no contingency plan for something so wide spread. God bless yall, stay safe, and become self efficient if not already.
Ben Marbury Just What I was thinking 🤔 today downtown esp. w/o tourists 👍🏻🙏🏻
Hearing the sirens day and night during the first few weeks of the pandemic was scary. Seeing the trailers at hospitals was so horrifying. NYC was so quiet, eerily quiet. Going out to do errands like grocery shopping and doing laundry took planning days in advance. We lost so many people.
That saxophone guy is there every day ... even during a global pandemic.
Hope he stays safe and wears a mask when he's not playin. God bless him
Gotta pay rent some how
an hero!
😂😂 Exactly
Those abs!
I am legend at 2:04
Was thinking same thing
Oh yes the movie
Lmao I'm wating that movie rn 😂
What?
Crazy to see something so historical taking place
Normal name,having seen a President and his murderer shot on Live News was enough historical moment's for me! Least we forget about the Challenger disaster and 911.🙏
Normal name thank communist china
PredictedCarrot yeah it’s sad. But people only react to things when it affects them. I’m guilty of it as well.
@@RobespierreThePoof me too its lovely and peaceful, great for cycling, the roads were always mental, its sad about the deaths, but we all die in the End
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As a foreigner this looks weird to me.
For those that LIVE there, this must be surreal in the extreme.
Surreal is an understatement, been here all my life and I can say with great certainty that no one ever thought this day would come. NYC life gasping for air...on the brink of economic collapse.
Who knew we would live in a world like this. It feels like we are living in a movie apocalypse, but it's real.
Just the beginning...
Well, sort of real... ua-cam.com/play/PLGFBuUuyZglMir8caChHkcyyUqKe40uU6.html
Bissy it’s the End of the World as we know it and I feel fine 🎶
And that’s exactly how rapture would feel.
We sold our guts to china for .............???? (We got nothing in return ultimately.) Ya, its a movie alright. B straight to DVD, no box office release. Actors unpaid.
You know it's bad when a place like NYC is near dead quiet.
Exactly 😪
@Nathan Super It's bad everywhere, idiot.
I love it this way can finally walk wo stupid tourists getting in the way lmao
@Nathan Super your mom takes me seriously
Yep
Feels like I’m watching a movie. It’s strange to think how we’re all living and making history and that this will all become a memory that will be mentioned in future textbooks. A part of me is still in denial.
Be thankful ... that textbooks are in our future ...
The trump administration and elites will change the textbooks like the Chinese. Europeans brought this virus
@@1x1HealthyEnergybyAndrew "Europeans brought this virus" True, but only by circumstance. Which is also a true statement wrt to the Chinese (although their food safety regulations and practices are lacking) being the source of this pandemic. Which is why epidemiologists worry so much about outbreaks (as evidence with H1N1 which was first detected on US soil), in that it could happen anywhere, anytime. Sometimes, you just cannot help it and it happens ... so you just have to be prepared for that possibility. And in this pandemic, some are more prepared than others, while others are still in denial.
Some people are finding out the hard way that in some situations, it is not possible to re-shape reality simply by words on twitter. 🤯 (yea, I know, _shocking_ isn't it)
@Nathan Super stop being defensive
@Nathan Super do you want me to say Eurasians? Look at the top countries
that saxophone guy playing with nobody around while the radio in background warning about covid is something straight out of horror movie
New York City without people doesn’t feels like New York City.
c0mpu73rguy wow, you’re very smart...
Agree
yeah feels like the Kuwaiti Desert
Too many People crowded in one tiny city can be a bad thing. That's why the covid19 cases are so high there.
Chris A « Tiny » city? XD
I really hope that humanity takes this time off and contemplates about the way we have been living the past few decades. One could think that we are “oh so modern and developed” but it’s only technology that is developed, what about the way of our hearts? and how we think and NOT appreciate everything we have, or don’t have. I wish humanity comes out of quarantine refreshed and with new look on life and this planet. Stay safe
I keep thinking about that...not trying to justify death but searching for some silver linings and realizing that we are still resilient and inventive people, we’ve been numbed out to each other’s humanity. I believe that society is much like a swinging pendulum, we reach an extreme and it’s at that moment we start to swing back towards center.
We got to that far point with being out of tune, lacking empathy, being rat raced to death and this slapped up a wall we couldn’t avoid hitting...people are outside enjoying nature for the first time since the nineties?!
I swear I’m oddly thrilled to hear kids playing outside. I am 42 and over the years I’ve seen kids disappear indoors, nothing could stop it, nothing I thought...but here we are, feeling the effects of being trapped inside so extremely we’ve opted to step outside and look up at the skies.
It can’t hurt us.
I’m sure you’re seeing and hearing all the anecdotes about families actually spending quality time together...it’s beautiful.
We will prevail
Where there’s life there’s hope 🙏🏻
kate carew I’m a teacher and believe me some parents can’t bear their own offsprings. this forced them to see what kind of bad behavior we teachers have to deal with on a daily basis. I hope that we can take this as a second chance and change if not everything then at least somethings.
-said the person who will continue to live their selfish, self centered, wasteful, inconsiderate and ignorant life right after the high of feeling like they're morally superior for making this witty little UA-cam comment wears off.
G'day sir.
I have really thought the same
True technology is evolving. Humans are not.
a city that never sleeps, finally taking a break. sad to see this.
Dusk Dawg Even if you’re totally right, what does this have to do with the comment you’re replying to?
c0mpu73rguy exactly!
Dusk Dawg I’m interested on your thoughts on how we should distribute wealth them?
itsnotbryan Not really as I am sure a much needed break is needed.
I said that to my friend last week lmao
That sax player is a total badass. Entertaining people even though he knows he isn't going to get any tips.
That sax player swears he's essential
@@Grimmes12 Essential sax worker
@@daheikkinen 9178592975
Talk about looking like "I am Legend"!
oh brother
Was thinking the same thing. Coronazombies next.
Lou DeMaria Omega Man, Charlton Heston..check it out!!
Dino Spumoni 🧟♀️ 🧟♂️ Thriller come 2 life!!
Or Vanilla Sky
I miss NYC even though I’m self isolated in Queens since 03/16.
Stay strong NYers ✌🏻💙
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Queens is part of new york city?
Queens IS NYC……
It's so surreal seeing a city known for its hustle and bustle be reduced to so much less.
And we did it to ourselves too. Or I should say THEY did it to us.
It's still lively in parts of Central Park and along the river. Lot's of people out--keeping a safe distance.
the city that FINALLY went to sleep!
Could of let that sax play throughout the video lol
Exactly their editors suck
Yes this was grim
They wanted to capture the feeling of emptiness and despair, so they used the eerie silence.
Soulful...perfect for the video.
@@walkingintruthknowledge7418 Uh no, they don't.
Quite scary seeing NYC like this, hope everyone stays safe.
finally theres no traffic in new york city
Surprise nobody mention that, with barely any cars out it could be a pretty weird driving around NY.
West For lols a lot of people probably haven’t been
it’s super nice to drive around nyc right now
And you can finally have parking
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This video will be shown in history classes for decades to come, just be proud that we lived through a historical moment
How come they have all those signs lit up.. Whose looking save electricity...
Contracts before-hand!
People need little things to feel normal. They still have to go shopping
We are ! And every other station and publication wanting to get a “Times Square is Empty! Wow!” shot... advertisement was created to be seen by as many as possible which is what’s happening.
@@no_peace It's good to have some normal things still going on. My local supermarket on normal times always plays music, now it's only silence and a random announcement of "keep your masks on and speed up your buying process please" It felt so bad and weird
👏 I was thinking the same thing...
This made me sob.. this isn’t the New York that welcomed me into its arms a year ago... but at the same time it is.. this has only really made my love for this city grow.
You will never think that New York City will ever shut down! This is the city that never sleep! But look at it today. So hurt to see it this way
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Looking back on this is so surreal. I remember the usually very busy Florida streets being almost empty. It was very easy to ride my bike without any traffic. 2020, the year that never was indeed 😮
This breaks my heart, I loved walking around the city and taking in all the life. Sad to see so many elderly folks in the video without masks
We are still walking. In the park and along the river. Keeping social distance.
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As a New Yorker it's very hard for me to see my beloved city like this. It breaks my heart to hear how many people have died due to this virus here and around the world. We lived through the darkest days of 9/11…but this's much worse in my opinion. Thank you for posting this remarkable footage of the city that has never fell asleep till now. To everyone out there: Be well and stay healthy!!!
Don't worry, nyc will wake up again very soon stay strong and stay safe
Scott Wilson Thank you. You too stay strong and healthy
That dude ate a chip with the glove he's probably been using all day. Not good
Yep Very bad
Hes in the ICU now
Maybe he put the gloves on specifically to eat.
Dino Spumoni doesn’t add up
U spot that
It's always humbling to see New Yorkers, even in their absence, collectively pitching in and making sacrifices so readily in times of crisis.
11 million good citizens, man.
Ethan Alfonso,
How lovely, Ethan, how very lovely. Thank you.
Thank you Ethan. Stay safe!
8 million citizens*
What Thanos snap really look like
Omg that so accurate
Yeah that was a really creepy foreshadowing of our present
Like Thanos, this Covid 19 is expected to wipe out 50% of the world’s population
No, it would look 100x worst than this.
@@ranelgallardo7031 sick! 😷😂
The city retains a quiet and peaceful.
Everyone looks like relaxing and peaceful.
They are not get panic.
@Hello Yoshikatsu Okuno, How are you doing?
I'm so happy to see that people are taking this seriously.
This is a very scary time, so I say thank you to everyone who's doing whatever they can to help.
How long, Brian.............?
@@death2pc Until he runs out of money or food. Then let's see what his attitude on the lock down is.
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Watching this video brought me to tears. Living here in this city in the early days of COVID were so scary. It's heartbreaking to think about how much we've lost...
It's heartbreaking... and the worst thing is staying in NYC and longing for NYC. Love you and miss you NYC❤
I'm 44 yrs old I just want my old NYC back I remember 1980s flushing queens and the others....why can't we have that true New York back not all this new world order crap that started 9/11 and now corona virus.. horrible..I don't know what age you are young or old but I remember the real true old NYC that's what we need back
Alisa8ForestHills Brigades wishful thinking. Believe me, I wish sometimes for the Brooklyn of yesteryear but that heart and soul has unfortunately been gone for many years (see Vanishing New York) .we’ll never rlly be the same..just have to adjust and accept the Newest New York Of the 20’s and beyond ..maybe a city that will even return to glory someday in the Not too distant future. #hopeandpray 🙏🏻
Zhaina A join in your sentiment 💔➡️❤️
@@davemann250 Up until the early to mid 90s you could still be an artist in the city and survive. Impossible now.
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Hats off to the way this was shot and edited. It felt like being transported to another time entirely.
#StayHome
Did they manage to get street sweepers in there to clean? Now would be the time...
CrackinJack ☆ They ran put of Lysol.
Switching to Fabuloso.
@@user-mp3eq6ir5b 🤣🤣🤣 whatever makes it smell better...
CrackinJack ☆ I travelled thru Mexico during the 90's & Fabuloso is the Go To Sanitizer in the Bus Industry. Strong Disimfectant & STRONG Perfume! Trademark, in fact.
@@user-mp3eq6ir5b I Loooooove fabuloso.
Sanitize the whole city
That video shot of the the black man playing the saxophone 🎷 was a perfect apocalyptic video, and this video in general is historical.
you mention his race even though it has nothing to do with race
South Jersey Railfan your right, I didn’t mean it in a mean spirited way, I was just being specific
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It's really interesting to see how a city that used to be so massively populated and constantly busy jump into being the exact opposite! So peculiar!
It is absolutely eerie to see the city like this. I swear it seems as if I'm the only one in my Brooklyn neighborhood.
When those 2 people touch the handrail on the subway, all I could think of was Contagion.😨
Brainwashed much? More people die of common cold this tanking of the economy isn't because a virus
@@johndoe-id8td
So you cant catch a cold like that?
Stfu
Look at how close they're sitting 😂
@Epic it's been around for more than a few months research I did says 2014
@@insomthegreat lol
Watching this in 2023 feels dystopian. Wild times. Thankful for it though
If we get through this , I’ll never complain about traffic again
I still can’t believe that this happened
0:54 the NYPD announcement for standing 6 feet apart, the girl excitedly climbing to the top of a huge empty stand for the sign and the sax playing was chilling
Hello
I don't know bout y'all, but as an introvert I kinda enjoyed 2020.
Looks like a ghost town.
Stay strong folks.
And keep God in your heart, this too shall pass.
HAR HAR MAHADEV
What if u come to my town it's a ghost town with or without coronavirus
Maybe every week u will see one or two persons walking around .
AND NOW MY HEART IS A GHOST TOWN 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶
god probably doesn't exist though. Science is much more useful.
@@travelleryu ok el skeleto
I remember going to time sq at night and not a soul in sight. It was very depressing.
For the first time in the 21st century and New York City history, there are no long traffic jams.
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Those born in 2020 will watch this video in 2050 and it will remain just memories
Talk about art imitating life. Perfect time to shoot an apocalyptic movie in NYC, only they can't because of the apocalypse.
This makes me so sad. So depressing.
It's like the day after 9/11! Creepy!
Do you remember looking up and seeing no passenger planes at all for so long, and then if there was a plane, like a military plane, it seemed threatening? Any loud noise was scary
dumb thicc wizard it was def scary I’d look out the window of our apartment in the Bronx and ask my mom if a plane was going to hit our building
Its worse than 9/11
Lance Morrison much worse than 911
@@michellebadillo7574 Impossible, your building is too low.
Honestly, this video is beautiful and captures moments like these during hard times. It’s sad to see this state look this way and we thought it’d never would’ve gotten worse for us, but sadly, it did. When this virus is gone and everything can go back to normal, I can say that we beat this virus and tell my future children about this awful pandemic. Hope everyone is staying savage out there!!
Kinda weird to think this happened, It's 2023 now and it feels like nothing happened just like everyone had a bad dream or a nightmare but a real one.
Wow. There is something so apocalyptic about these scenes.
This is simply haunting.
Lmao the musician still playing his sax like he is essential
he is the soul of the city, not the money walking around.
Lmao the pompous millennial making a witty little UA-cam comment to further his ego by putting down others trying to lift people up while they themselves continue their selfish little lifestyle, like he is essential.
@@thecreep5123 who hurt you?
Has to pay the rent some way or form.
Gotta make a living somehow in this time
Stay safe, everybody. We're in this together . . but alone 🙃
You said it 👍
Right brother
I'm 62, I've lived in the English countryside all my life, I can't say I like cities very much, in 2016, I did a guided tour of New England and spent a day in New York, I loved it, was hoping to go back in 2021 for my 40th wedding anniversary, but bloody covid, stay safe New York.
I’m the same way. I grew up and currently reside in rural America. Visiting cities on the occasion is somewhat enjoyable I suppose. I must admit that I find the architectural side of cities beautiful.
When I was in Europe for a brief period of time I adored London. Gatwick airport was also very clean when I went over to your side of the pond.
Really haunting to come back to this nearly a year later. Feeling the ghosts of panic inside every apartment around them, remembering all that suffering. We’ve finally got a vaccine and half the population won’t take it. Almost 500,000 dead. Cases are triple what they were then and we’ve just gone numb to it. What was this for?
2:03. I Am Legend Scene 😂
This is what happens when education fails several generations and people are not taught to think critically.
My aunt lives in New York and I visit her all the time, it’s surreal to see the streets so empty
it's all surreal. I live in Rome, in October I was in NY, when everything will end, I want to go back there to celebrate!
@Matt Pizzano it must end! even the plague is over
Gosh, never thought I would see Times square and queens so empty...
queens is always pretty empty??
@@danmcdermott7480 you'd be surprised
Sirens and background music at the end. Pretty bone-chilling.
This looks like something out of a horror or apocalypse movie
People should watch this in the year 2120 when the coronavirus makes its precise 100-year reappearance in the world again.
Corona will reappeare every winter like flu.
I’m English but I would definitely say I’m a New Yorker at heart. I hope everyone is safe, happy and healthy over there
These was one of the most scariest times in my life
Yes
You got through it man, we did it dammit.
I always wonderfu how would NYC look without people. So sad. Stay safe everyone.
This is something we all have to tell our kids one day.
NYC without people isn’t really NYC at all. People are its heart. ♥️
Man a year flew by already...I'll be telling my kids about this one day...
Yup my 2021 baby lol
There is something so satisfying to see how empty it is in the city probably because this has never happened before
I live here, and everytime I hear a ambulance all I can think of is wow... another victim cornavirus has claimed. Scary times ppl🙏🏼
I love New York City so much.
Re watch this part 5:55 🤣 the lady moved a bit away like telling the person behind her is like “not too close”
Al Lo
I noticed that, too. The same thing happened to me in a grocery store. The clerk noticed what was happening and asked if we were together. I said we weren’t and she gently asked the man to move back a little. He did, and I thanked her. Everyone was polite.
Watched all these different videos of NYC throughout the decades, its crazy to see how much things changed.
I kick myself everyday for not going out making photographs during the height of the 'pandemic'. That was a once in a lifetime event and there were relatively unobstructed views of landmarks that are highly unlikely to ever happen again.
I was out and about all over the city during this time. It was very eerie especially at night time.
This is so heartbreaking to watch. I almost cried ❤️
It's like we actually live in the post thanos snap world
Was literally telling my x girlfriend the same thing yesterday
The people bring this place to life ❤
So eerie seeing NYC this way. :(
All the People on the Face of the Earth want to know New York one day, I'm sad to see the nations going through this sad moment
2:05 I legend the dog scene
Yes
Thank you to the man playing the sax.
Looks better without the crowd lol
06:20 "Welcome to Little Italy"
That hits different now.
when the saxophone guy started playing with the police announcement playing in the background it reminded me of the video game The Darkness and almost any end of the world future where the government has control over almost everything. Its erie and cool at the same time. Kind of made me want to cry though.
Its a shame there isn't a period in the day or morn, where New York can't be this quiet, even for just an hour , until it HAS TO boom and so busy and crowded.
Did this all really happen in real life or did I imagine it all?
It was like that everything empty at the first day of the quarantine
For the first couple of months this is exactly how it was in Baltimore(March-September)
Watching this video breaks my heart!
But the safety of the people comes first..Praying for everyone around the world to stay safe and healthy..
Start spreadin' the news, I'm leavin' today
I want to be a part of it
New York, New York
These vagabond shoes, are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it
New York, New York
I wanna to wake up, in a city that doesn't sleep.....
😂😂🐐
🤭You are beautiful 🤭
I can't wait for the new year. Stay strong NYC
Good to see Ole Blue Eyes being relevant in 2020 🇵🇷🇺🇸😉
I wanna sing that In the middle of time square when I visit one day😂😂
The streets of New York use to be so bright at night... it’s kinda sad to see it like this.
I remember when there were body bags lining the streets of New York City and other cities around the world. However, we have come a long way since these tragic days. WE MADE IT!!
I don't remember any body bags. Turn off the TV.
Crazy to think this was only just four years ago