6/14/2023 0 Comments Double decker bus nyc![]() ![]() Tourism in the five boroughs will be down approximately 66 percent in 2020, the city projected in mid-November. The bus wheeled from Rockefeller Plaza down to Madison Square Garden, whose cavernous performance spaces have remained empty since March. Bailey chimed in and said that they had antibodies. “We already had it,” said Maddey, the other daughter. Here for just a couple more days, the Henneseys weren’t worried about catching COVID-19 in Manhattan, an area that’s more than 4,500 times denser per square mile than the county surrounding their small town in eastern Texas. “I wanted to come here for a long time to see the Rockefeller tree and all that stuff.” “We just wanted to come for Christmas,” Bailey, one of the daughters, said with a twang. In front of me sat the Henneseys, a mother and two daughters visiting from Centerville, Texas, a town of approximately 1,000 people. A sprinkle of snow meandered down from overcast skies. ![]() What they saw as the bus trundled through downtown Manhattan was an urban center limping, but still chugging, along.Ī little after 11 a.m., the bus left from Times Square and did a quick loop around Rockefeller Plaza and past the shuttered Radio City Music Hall. ![]() Even Sinatra’s velvety voice couldn’t dispel the spectre of the pandemic.Īmid rising coronavirus hospitalizations, Cuomo’s threats of another “New York PAUSE” and toe-numbing cold, tourists across the country and world still found their way to the top of a tour bus to see the sites of a city scarred by almost nine months of disease. Bundled in coats, about 10 people sat spaced apart, all wearing masks. That split-second of sentimentality disappeared when a gust of bitingly cold wind blew across the bus’s outdoor deck. When I plugged in disposable red earbuds to a headphone jack on TopView’s double-decker bus on a recent Tuesday, Frank Sinatra greeted me with a nostalgic rendition of “New York, New York.” A view from TopView’s double-decker tour bus. ![]()
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