![]() Outside small pharmacies in Russian Brooklyn, in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, at hundreds of sites across the five boroughs, New Yorkers line up to get their jabs. More than 50 per cent of New Yorkers have now received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine. And this year another kind of thaw is in progress – from the long hibernation of pandemic isolation. A small price to pay to be free of a long and bitter winter. On warmer days it is possible to catch a foretaste of that unique smell of the city in the summertime: the odour of hot trash, wafting up from the bags piled on the pavement for collection. The streets of Lower Manhattan fill with people. The air loses its winter crispness and takes on that close, indistinct quality of the warmer months in the US north-east. Spring in New York City: tulips in Washington Square Park, cherry trees blossoming in the shadow of cast-iron buildings in SoHo.
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