Photos: Ghostly COVID-era New York City, captured from a motorbike

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In its best days, in its highest moments, New York City is dizzying. But for now, it is become a place of familiar landmarks and well-trodden streets thrown off kilter by an invisible adversary that is taking some of its people away and terrifying the rest. | Above: A man crosses a street against the backdrop of One World Trade Center at dusk in New York. Image Credit: AP

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In many of these images, the people are what's missing. They are not where they should be. In others, a few tread where throngs usually walk, an unsettling sight in itself. Restaurants, closed. Taxis lined up, parked and unoccupied. Wide highways, unwelcoming in their emptiness. People, alone where the crowds should be. Image Credit: AP

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Many of New York's moments have, in fact, been stolen in these most recent weeks of its life. Pieces of the city have waited for its people to come back before, though never quite like this. And just as before, the city waits for its people. If the past is any indication, they will return. But not yet. Image Credit: AP

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Condensation from liquid oxygen tanks fogs the corner of the Elmhurst Hospital Center in the Queens borough of New York. The hospital has dedicated most of its operations to caring for COVID-19 patients Image Credit: AP

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Red teddy bears sit at the outdoor tables of a restaurant on Madison Avenue in New York. Many restaurants in New York City have converted to delivery and take-out orders only as people are encouraged to stay home Image Credit: AP

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A woman stands alone outside an empty subway entrance on 42nd Street in Times Square, which is usually bustling with activity, in New York Image Credit: AP

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Empty taxis are parked in front of a garage in the Brooklyn borough of New York Image Credit: AP

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A empty street frames One World Trade Center in downtown New York Image Credit: AP

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Pedestrians, one wearing a face mask, cross Park Avenue in New York. Image Credit: AP

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An ambulance from The Brooklyn Hospital Center speeds through the Boerum Hill neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York Image Credit: AP

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A woman wearing a face mask waits to cross the street in the East Village neighbourhood of New York Image Credit: AP

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The Brooklyn bridge is lit against the dusk sky in the Brooklyn borough of New York Image Credit: AP

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A man pulls a shopping cart filled with his belongings as he walks down an empty street in New York. Image Credit: AP

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A couple walks in front of shuttered shops in the Chinatown in the Brooklyn borough of New York Image Credit: AP

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A woman with a face mask walks past a mural in the Brooklyn borough of New York Image Credit: AP

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Buildings in Brooklyn and Manhattan separated by the East River are seen from the Williamsburg Bridge in New York Image Credit: AP

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Two police officers stand on a street corner to encourage social distancing in New York Image Credit: AP

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An ambulance turns the corner beneath the Flushing Avenue subway station, photographed from the back of a motorcycle, in the Brooklyn borough of New York Image Credit: AP

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Lights illuminate a gas station on a dark and empty street in the Brooklyn borough of New York Image Credit: AP

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A jogger runs past blossoming trees on a path next to the Henry Hudson Parkway in New York Image Credit: AP

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Several men wearing masks wait under an overpass in the Queens borough of New York Image Credit: AP

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A man gazes out of a window of a restaurant as he adjusts potted plants in New York Image Credit: AP

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