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the famed amusement area in Brooklyn

there was brilliant sunshine in Times Square

an illustrator based in Estonia and New Zealand

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Shuttered San Francisco collection-color the famed amusement area inThis image of Alamo Square Park in San Francisco is part of a collection of photos of once bustling locations that were rendered deserted by the global health crisis of 2020. Despite the emptiness or because of it, the locations took on a haunting beauty captured in The Times article, The Great Empty. During the height of the coronavirus outbreak in March 2020, The Times sent dozens of photographers out to take images of popular public plazas,