Since March, 77 of the 321 retail businesses still operating in the subway system have permanently closed, according to the transit agency. Even as trains sat mostly empty and silence filled Vanderbilt Hall, for one day it felt like a time capsule in a corner of Grand Central Terminal: The station’s famed Oyster Bar, which had shuttered for seven months because of pandemic restrictions, had reopened and 80 of its 81 reservations slots were filled.

+INFO: The New York Times