From the crowded subway to the baseball game, the lost sounds of New York - Lifestyle

 The lost sounds of New York: the rush hour subway, the baseball game at the stadium (Mets or Yankees is not said), the run-up to the taxi, the ticking of thousands of heels on the pavement, all the noises that made background to the daily life of New Yorkers before the coronavirus resonate with nostalgia in a playlist created by the New York Public Library. Archeology of emotions , and it is a paradox that the New York institution where, more than in other places in the metropolis even before there was silence, motivated itself to give back to its fellow citizens for 16 minutes the distant echo of their daily life before of the lockdown . https://soundcloud.com/nypl/to-see-an-underground-show
    New Yorkers, admit it, you miss the noise of your city. Certainly not the ambulance siren that in the days of the pandemic breaks the ghostly silence of "everyone at home", but the screeching of the subway train in braking that enters the station, the cry of the commuter to stop the taxi, the horns sounded at the unison at rush hour. Who would have said that the multilingual voices in the street of rowdy neighbors would become music for your ears? The playlist was published on Spotify and on the website of the Library itself. Included in "Missing Sounds of New York" are two minutes and 34 seconds of "rush hour" , two minutes and 21 seconds of life in a park, one minute and four seconds at the baseball stadium. The track "To See an Underground Show" on the subway was made in collaboration with the dancer and musical impresario of the Bronx Kid The Wix, who became famous when as a sudden teen-ager a ballet in the middle of Times Square: mix the familiar noise of the train and commuter movements with the applause of travelers in front of an improvised dance in a carriage. From there we move on to "Romancing Rush Hour," a rush hour sound tour that ends with a saxophone solo.
    "This album is a love letter for our fellow citizens through the familiar sounds of the city that we all know and love," said Carrie Welch, the spokeswoman for the library whose headquarters on Fifth Avenue watched by two stone lions. it has been closed since March 14, like the 92 branches located in the five boroughs. The playlist also includes two minutes and 19 seconds recorded in a reading room: between the rustle of the pages and moved chairs it is not as silent as one might expect.