Mr. Huggins is now facing the stark uncertainty that every street performer in the city is reckoning with: no tourists, and the audiences that do show up are thin, hesitant, and socially distant. And his income, he said, is less than half of what it used to be. Mr. Huggins typically performed long sets on Saturdays and Sundays, but to make ends meet he recently played for two weeks straight until he was delirious with exhaustion. “Everyone just thinks of me as the piano guy and they want me to play my music,” he said. “No one ever thinks about what I’m going through as a person during all of this.”

Source: New York Times July 16, 2020 09:00 UTC