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NYCity News Service photographers asked people to describe how the pandemic has made them feel.
Here’s a selection of what we gathered in parks, at beaches and on street corners in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens:
ABSURD Terrence, a New Yorker, in Central Park. (Cheyann Harris.)
FRUSTRATED UPSET DEPRESSING. A New Yorker outside Barclays Center. (Harris)
CONFUSED Stephanie, from California, at Rockaway Beach. (Anthony Medina)
DISTRAUGHT Janel Alfred, a Rockaways resident, at the beach. (Medina)
STUCK John Cozart, who lost relatives and became homeless, in Queens’ Forest Park. (Medina)
UPSET Ryan Zakin, who moved to Brooklyn this spring, in Washington Square Park. (Mariah Thomas.)
I WANT A SUGA ZADDY THAT DOESN’T NEED SUGA Washington Square. (Tremain Prioleau II)
SAD Kyle Sandor, a SUNY Purchase graduate, in Washington Square. (Mariah Thomas.)
RELIEVED Jon Colon, a Brooklyn resident, at Rockaway (Medina)
LIKE A KID TRAPPED IN AN AGING BODY BUT I’M GOOD Washington Square. (Prioleau)
DON’T LOSE YOUR SMILE Gabriel, a native of Argentina, in Central Park. (Harris.)
