NYC Reopens
The Diamond District Hums at $400 Million-a-Day Pace in Muffled NYC
How shops kept selling gold chains and $700,000 Hublot watches on 47th Street when everyone else was locked down.
The Diamond District in New York, on June 10.
Photographer: Nina Westervelt/BloombergEditor’s Note: No city is more important to America’s economy than New York, and none has been hit harder by the coronavirus. “NYC Reopens” examines life in the capital of capitalism as the city takes its first halting steps toward a new normal.
Times Square, the crossroads of the world, still looks a little like a ghost town. Storefronts are boarded up. The streets emptied of tourists and gawkers. Broadway devoid of its usual flash and flair.