More than 100 days after New York City was shuttered by the coronavirus, which devastated the once-thriving metropolis with more than 21,000 deaths, the city faces a new challenging yet hopeful moment in the fight against the pandemic: phase two of reopening.
Starting Monday, New Yorkers can once again begin dining outdoors, barbershops and hair salons can tend to overgrown hair, children kept indoors in cramped apartments can run around on playgrounds.