New York City has become the new quiet place. Indeed, since the coronavirus lockdown made everyone either stay at home or flee the city, the chirping birds have been about the loudest thing you can hear in the concrete jungle.
But if your ears — and your heart — are missing the hustle and bustle, you can capture the frequency of our pre-pandemic city in “Missing Sounds of New York,” a new immersive audio experience from the New York Public Library released on Friday.
It’s ironic that the eight-track project — a collaboration with the creative agency Mother New York that is available to stream for free on Spotify and at NYPL.org — would come from the place where you’re supposed to be the quietest: the library. “With so much uncertainty in