Saxophonist and recording artist Isaiah RIchardson Jr. performs for donations from visitors, arriving and leaving the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thursday, March 12, 2020, in New York. The Met has announced it will be closing its doors Friday to aid in stopping the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
March 12, 2020
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March 12, 2020 7:08 p.m.
The city sleeps: New York bans big gatherings, museums close
NEW YORK (AP) — Museums prepared to shut their doors, the opera was silenced, lights dimmed on Broadway, big gatherings were banned and the subway was shunned as the largest city in the United States wound down Thursday amid a rise in coronavirus cases.