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Open Up Your Ears To The Sounds Of New York City

Carrie Welch of the New York Public Library discusses the library's new release "Missing Sounds of New York: An Auditory Love Letter to New Yorkers."
A view of the Chrysler Building (rear) and empty street on March 27, 2020 in New York City. (Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images)

New York City — the city that never sleeps — is normally a vibrant soundscape of construction, trains and traffic. 

But since the coronavirus outbreak put the city on lockdown, those sounds have disappeared, and New Yorkers are missing them. A new album from the New York Public Library gives a sense of the sounds that have been lost. 

Missing Sounds

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