{"id":8937,"date":"2025-03-12T08:44:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8937"},"modified":"2025-03-12T08:44:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:44:56","slug":"the-artifacts-of-new-yorks-pandemic-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/12\/the-artifacts-of-new-yorks-pandemic-era\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artifacts of New York\u2019s Pandemic Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/12\/nyregion\/covid-pandemic-ny-artifacts.html\">NYT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stuck to lampposts and floorboards, reminders of Covid\u2019s darkest days are everywhere. The vintage aura of Sevilla Restaurant \u2014 the servers in bow ties, the leather booths, the glow of lanterns \u2014 reflects a bygone era of the West Village in Manhattan, where the establishment was founded almost a century ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But alongside those period details, there is one dissonant design element that evokes a far more recent moment in time: clear plastic screens dividing the restaurant\u2019s rear tables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe partitions came up during the pandemic,\u201d said Miguel Lloves, 47, whose family took over the business in the 1960s. \u201cI did ask my dad if we\u2019d want to take them down. He didn\u2019t let me. Somehow, in his mind, he thinks it\u2019s going to come back.\u201d Scan your eyes around New York City, and you\u2019ll spot them everywhere, these artifacts of the pandemic, lingering through intent or indifference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/12\/nyregion\/covid-pandemic-ny-artifacts.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"lxKpRe yYNrbmgLfk\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT Stuck to lampposts and floorboards, reminders of Covid\u2019s darkest days are everywhere. The vintage aura of Sevilla Restaurant \u2014 the servers in bow ties, the leather booths, the glow of lanterns \u2014 reflects a bygone era of the West Village in Manhattan, where the establishment was founded almost a century ago. But alongside those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological-and-sociological-impact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8938,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions\/8938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}