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Photos: See NYC Emerge From The COVID Lockdown

Life in NYC is captured slowly returning to a kind of normal.

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Friends gather May 17 for their weekly "Monday Night Hang" at the Tiki Bar on Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York.
Friends gather May 17 for their weekly "Monday Night Hang" at the Tiki Bar on Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

NEW YORK CITY — New Yorkers are slowly emerging from more than a year of lockdown.

As vaccinated city dwellers tentatively head out without masks, capacity limits start to lift and more and more businesses get closer to returning to normal, the streets are regaining their bustle.

See how the city looks as it makes its comeback in the photos below:

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Patrons leave as others wait for a table May 17 at Tiki Bar on Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Although the week was just beginning, the popular Upper West Side corner bar and restaurant Tiki Bar was hopping May 17, two days before vaccinated New Yorkers would be able to shed their masks in most situations. Restaurants, shops, gyms and many other businesses can go back to full occupancy if all patrons are inoculated.

e's Bar co-owner Erin Bellard (right) takes a patron's temperature May 17 before allowing him to take a seat at her bar on Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
A woman buys a face mask May 17 at a newspaper stand on 14th Street in the East Village of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Patrons at e's Bar on Manhattan's Upper West Side share a toast May 17 in New York. "We feel the energy of social life gearing back up," co-owner Erin Bellard said. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
A customer shops the produce section at a supermarket in the East Village neighborhood of New York on May 17. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
A customer has his beard trimmed at Ben's Barbers on May 17 in the East Village neighborhood of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
People stand on a platform of the Grand Central Subway Station as the 5 Train arrives May 18 in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Dancers from Broadway shows perform in New York's Times Square on March 12. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

The "We Will Be Back" Broadway Celebration program March 12 in Times Square commemorated the lost year on Broadway due to the coronavirus pandemic and sought to shine some hope on the year to come.

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