Panic swept through Midtown Manhattan as thick smoke poured into the streets from a basement fire in a skyscraper near 6th ...

Officials said the smoke came from a fire in the basement of the Hilton Hotel at 1326 6th Avenue, between West 53rd Street ...

Image Times Square last month, where the level of foot traffic is nearly 80 percent of before the pandemic.Credit...Amir Hamja for The New York Times And then there’s the infamous Midtown traffic.