On March 16, 2020, amid the Coronavirus shut-down in NYC, photographer Ruben Natal-San Miguel ventured out. from his Harlem apartment to midtown Manhattan to document the city that never sleeps, virtually asleep.

In the next post, you’ll see that it wasn’t totally deserted, a few intrepid souls were out practicing social distancing, for the most part, but Ruben did find himself practically alone, and captured the rare, sad sights.

(Photographs, Ruben Natal-San Miguel)