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steam rose from manhole covers. newspapers blew down wet, empty streets and you'd turn your trench coat. with city transit shut down, New Yorkers took to eerily empty streets. like an architectural photograph without people [the easy way out for the photographer], the built world is hallucinatory: empty streets, empty portals.

if Macy's paraded to empty streets or utterly indifferent bystanders, it would be pretentious to describe its actions as performance.

where had everyone gone? here and there a few people walked across empty streets, or stood waiting outside the offices of some international aid agency. in the hushed morning after San Cristobal's New Year's celebration in 1994, hundreds of masked rebels moved through the empty streets, cutting phone lines …