ali motamedi

Ali Motamedi When the City Went to Sleep It was winter of 2020 when I moved into a new apartment in Manhattan. One month later, news from overseas brought an unknown virus: COVID-19 was spreading everywhere. Soon the stores, restaurants, and museums were closed. The shadows of fear and loneliness were everywhere. The city that never sleeps was finally asleep. Weeks passed and I was trapped in a tiny studio apartment in Manhattan. I tracked the number of dead in the news, and I heard that some