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COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York

COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

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:

COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

Madison Avenue shops shuttered, the street was vacant:

COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

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

COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

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

COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Samaratin’s Purse field hospital in Central Park. COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
A refrigerator truck serves as makeshift morgue at Lenox Hill Hospital. COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
COVID-19 New Normal: Springtime Sunday in New York © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

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