By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.com

More bikes than cars and buses combined took over Park Avenue and people seemed to take care to properly social distance and respect others as they sprawled on the great lawns of Central Park. New Yorkers expressed thank-you’s to health care workers, as hospitals still under stress of coronavirus pandemic. Here are scenes from the New Normal on a spring Sunday in New York:

Park Avenue has more bikers, runners than cars:

Madison Avenue shops shuttered, the street was vacant:

New Yorkers, craving the outdoors, were careful to socially distance on Central Park’s great lawns:

The grim reality of the coronavirus devastation was not far away:

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