What New York lacked in crowds, it made up for in hope.
As the city reflected on a year it would love to forget the turn of the new year was marked with grief and grace.
The city prides itself in throwing the biggest New Year s Eve party on the planet - the world invited - but the message this year was to stay away.
More than a million people stretched almost 20 blocks around Times Square last New Year s Eve. This year just a few hundred people attended the famous ball drop by special invitation - many of them frontline workers.
Corona macht Big Apple kaputt: New York wünscht sich volle Straßen zurück
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New Yorks Vorsatz: Wieder Weltstadt werden
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Cuomo tells New York hospitals to start testing for new mutant strain of COVID so the US can isolate it immediately as Fauci says it s already here
Cuomo said he has asked hospitals across New York to start testing for the mutant strain that has been detected in the UK
Dr. Fauci said earlier on Tuesday that the strain was likely already in the US
The mutant strain is 70% more infectious than what has previously been seen
It has not yet been detected in the US but Cuomo is ordering hospitals to test for it now when they see new cases of COVID