After more than a year, pandemic-era safety precautions have become established aspects of daily life in New York.
New York will end, in most cases, state-mandated capacity limits and no longer require social distancing.
About 65 percent of adults — those 18 or older — have received at least one dose in the city.
For any major music ensemble, planning a season of concerts as a pandemic stretches on is daunting.
But the Philharmonic won’t travel too far.
And it performed at Bryant Park last week, the first time its musicians had played together without masks since the start of the pandemic.
A few of the concerts will be at an unusual time: The orchestra will present three Sunday matinees, the first time it has done that since the 1960s, in an effort to broaden its audience.
One morning, I drove to school, attended my classes and then strolled out onto Flatbush Avenue, where I caught a bus to Downtown Brooklyn and the Draft Board Office there.
After I was finished at the draft board, I wandered to the nearest bus stop.