{"id":1965,"date":"2025-02-02T23:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T23:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2025-02-02T23:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T23:25:04","slug":"new-york-city-an-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/new-york-city-an-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City, an Obituary."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-455\" src=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/travel_impressions_expatcircle-1024x97.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"61\" srcset=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/travel_impressions_expatcircle-1024x97.webp 1024w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/travel_impressions_expatcircle-300x28.webp 300w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/travel_impressions_expatcircle-768x73.webp 768w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/travel_impressions_expatcircle.webp 1138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\n\u00a9 Pictures,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/expatcircle-photos-tos-terms-of-use\/?swcfpc=1\">Use policy \/ ToS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New York City is not what it used to be. During the day, there are only about 50% of the people on the streets compared to pre-COVID times.<\/p>\n<p>Times Square was always unpopular with locals, but it was a very central transportation hub:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1382\" src=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/subway-map-half-1024x637.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the Times Square Metro Station at 3 AM on the night from Saturday to Sunday. You should hardly be able to walk here because of all the people. And it&#8217;s deserted&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The city that never sleeps has started to sleep.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1383\" src=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/nyc_saturday_night_02-1024x769.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1384\" src=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/nyc_saturday_night_01-1024x769.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Pictures,\u00a0Use policy \/ ToS. &nbsp; New York City is not what it used to be. During the day, there are only about 50% of the people on the streets compared to pre-COVID times. Times Square was always unpopular with locals, but it was a very central transportation hub: Here is the Times Square Metro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-impressions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}