New York City, The Same But Different

Yve Laran
4 min readJul 10, 2021

It Never Went Away. It’s Coming Back.

Photo by Priyanka Puvvada on Unsplash

How does it feel to be back in Manhattan, but not? My high-powered job is gone, and my daily commute is gone. But the buildings are still there, along with the people and their optimism. Yet, most of the storefronts in Grand Central are closed. I no longer spend half an hour leafing through magazines as I used to do in Hudson News because it’s shuttered. Zaro’s…

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Yve Laran

Bibliophile, Writer and Blogger at yve.laran@wordpress.com. Podcaster on Spotify as Yve Laran. Master’s=Political; Bachelor’s=Musical