Barren Berlin FD2025-custom including in 1962

including in 1962

will hop here and there around the world

Certain blocks were also designated as “play streets

salmon and Joe Tuna's cigar

bound for the Bronx and then for incineration

Barren Berlin FD2025-custom including in 1962This stark image of Alexanderplatz public square 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,