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A look back at New York City scenes from 2020, a year largely defined by a global pandemic and its accompanying economic fallout.
When the pandemic first shut the city down in early spring, neighbors formed mutual aid networks to help deliver groceries and run errands for those who needed to stay home. Here, a volunteer with Corona Couriers in Queens heads out to make a delivery in April. (Adi Talwar) 
An emergency management tent outside Mount Sinai Queens Hospital in Astoria at the end of March. (Jeanmarie Evelly) A LinkNYC kiosks in Queens offers COVID safety tips. (Jeanmarie Evelly) Hunger and food insecurity quickly emerged as one of the most pressing problems facing New Yorkers during the pandemic. Here, residents lined up at one of the city’s free meal hubs in May. (Adi Talwar) The police killing of George Floyd in May spurred protests across the city. Here, a driver holds a sign during a protest march in Brooklyn. (Jeanmarie Evelly) Queens Community House’s Ruby Tamayo loading a meal delivery van. The pandemic forced senior centers to close, prompting the city to shift its meal delivery program for seniors. (Adi Talwar) A masked voter participates in the June 2020 primary. Officials worry that lower-than-expected growth in the voter rolls this year will echo across elections in 2021 and 2022. (Adi Talwar) The scene from a June protest by Housing Justice for All. Many New Yorkers have had trouble paying the rent since the start of the pandemic, prompting calls for rent relief and better tenant protections. (Sadef Kully) A view of the Northern end of Gowanus Canal. The city restarted discussions this fall for rezoning a large swath of the Brooklyn neighborhood. (Adi Talwar) The Pediatric Emergency Room entrance at Montefiore Medical Center’s Moses Campus on Bainbridge Avenue In the Bronx in October. (Adi Talwar) A drive through COVID testing site on Goulden Avenue in the Bronx in October. (Adi Talwar) Masked passengers seated on a MTA Bus heading East on Fordham Road in the Bronx this past fall. (Adi Talwar) The city launched a public art campaign in November, in response to an uptick in bias incidents again Asian New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Nicole Javorsky) Melissa Lopez, 22, in front of Bronx Documentary Center’s memorial installation honouring people who have died due to COVID-19. Lopez’s grandfather Jose Antonio Acevedo (seen in the background) was 84 when he died earlier this year in April. (Adi Talwar) After shuttering in-person learning in March, New York City schools reopened this fall with new COVID-19 protocols in place. Here, a scene from Public School 280 in the Bronx in October. (Adi Talwar) Masked seniors play an early evening games of dominoes in one of the tree canopied seating areas at Serviam Gardens, an affordable housing complex for seniors located on 198th Street in the Bedford Park neighborhood of the Bronx. (Adi Talwar) Volunteers from opposing campaigns hold signs on the corner of Ridge Boulevard and 73rd Street in Bay Ridge on Election Day in November. (Adi Talwar) Performers in the Mazarte Dance Company practice their routine in Central Park in December. Latino artists have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, those in the industry say. (Adi Talwar) 
Residents line up at the Bay Ridge CityMD clinic for COVID-19 tests in December, as cases continued to rise across the city. (Nicole Javorsky)