Got yourself a dreaded case of the Mondays? Start your week off right by catching up on last week's episode of the Hell Gate Podcast. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts, or watch our beautiful faces on our YouTube channel:
It's not the oppressive humidity or the rain keeping people indoors on this besodden Monday morning. Are you on the isle of Manhattan? Look around you. Yes, look around you. Are you on its grand avenues, in its steamy subway stations, its parks, once a-teeming? Are you on its Broadways, its Canals, its Dyckmans? Beneath its skyscrapers, above its raging sewers, eye-level with its endless maze of scaffolding?
As you wander the quiet streets, are you wondering where the streaming mass of humanity is? Fear not, for they will return. But now—now it is the time of Empty Manhattan, when the summer becomes too much to bear, so people leave or they just melt into the landscape.