Where do Americans come together when they can’t go very far or get too close?
We visit the porches, yards, rivers and parking lots that have become the country’s new neighborhoods.
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We visit the porches, yards, rivers and parking lots that have become the country’s new neighborhoods.
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In Wichita, Kansas, hundreds of sedans, minivans and SUVs roll along quietly with their windows down for a “social distancing car cruise.” Drivers and passengers could wave “hi” from a safe distance. nyti.ms/3d6r7TX 
In the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, Dirk’s Fish has done more business in the nearly 6 weeks since Illinois locked down — fishmongers were deemed essential — than in any 6-week period since it opened in 2003. nyti.ms/3d6r7TX
In Carrboro, North Carolina, neighbors on one block realized several people on their street had upcoming birthdays. Plans for a quarantine block party were hatched via group text. “Like most things with us it just sort of happened,” one neighbor said. nyti.ms/3d6r7TX
In Phoenix, a couple invites 2 friends to celebrate a joint birthday on their porch. Foldout chairs are carefully placed 8 feet apart and the host left the measuring tape on the floor to prove it. nyti.ms/3d6r7TX
In the kid-friendly Woodland Heights neighborhood of Houston, the DeHaven family built a zoo in their yard for neighbors to visit — complete with a live tadpole habitat and cardboard cages for their stuffed animals.
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Keeping space is rarely an issue in Wise River, Montana, where a fly fisherman’s preferred distance from others while fly fishing — pandemic or not — is about half a mile. nyti.ms/3d6r7TX
See some of the new American rituals that have emerged since the start of the pandemic — snapshots of neighbors finding original ways to reconnect.
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