City sleeps: A look at the empty New York City streets amid the coronavirus

Efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus have completely altered the usual New Yorker way of life, grinding the "city that never sleeps" to a halt in the last week after it became one of the nation’s epicenters for the fast-spreading coronavirus. | Above: A woman walks through a lightly trafficked Times Square in New York

Nearly 2,000 people have been hospitalised in the state with the virus and 114 have died, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. More than 15,000 have tested positive statewide, including 9,000 in New York City. | Above: A pedestrian walks her dog through a quiet street, in the Brooklyn borough of New York

A desolate Times Square still lit up with no one on the streets. The usually bustling Grand Central Terminal empty, except for a lone traveler. Only a few people snapping selfies on the Brooklyn Bridge, instead of the horde of commuters and tourists that usually venture across the iconic span. | Above: A police officer walks across an empty 7th Avenue in a sparsely populated Times Square

The Charging Bull (above), a popular tourist attraction near the Stock Exchange normally surrounded by tourists, stood alone with no one in sight.

The impact on the usually bustling city were visible throughout Manhattan. | Above: A quiet street in Manhattan

A lone pedestrian wearing a protective mask walks past the New York Stock Exchange in New York

A cyclist rides his bicycle down the middle of a main road in downtown New York

A pedestrian wearing a protective face mask walks by a shuttered movie theater off Times Square, in New York

A pedestrian on a quiet street in Manhattan

The Minskoff Theatre is shuttered in New York, near Times Square after Broadway theaters closed following Governor Andrew Cuomo's banning of gatherings of more than 500 people over concerns about the spread of the coronavirus

A pedestrian stands along in a sparsely populated transit hub in the downtown financial district as retail stores remain shuttered due to COVID-19 concerns, in New York

A solitary subway customer stands on an empty platform in the morning hours in New York

Ines Tshiyomba, center, poses as her friend Garethe Mawonso takes her photo on the Brooklyn Bridge which is normally packed with tourists and commuters in New York

The Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive or FDR, a parkway on the east side of New York is seen with few vehicles

A lone pedestrian walks his dog past the New York Stock Exchange as COVID-19 concerns empty a typically bustling downtown area in New York

Subway riders wear protective masks and gloves on a sparsely populated car during morning hours due to COVID-19 concerns that are driving down ridership, in New York

A single vehicle heads downtown along the west side highway as COVID-19 concerns empties a typically busy thoroughfare, in New York

A traveller stands at the information desk at Grand Central Terminal, in New York

The road which runs through Central Park is free of traffic in New York

A security guard walks through a sparsely populated transit hub in the downtown financial district as retail stores remain shuttered due to COVID-19 concerns, in New York