I photographed Macy’s department store in Herald Square, Manhattan, for my book during the pandemic in June 2020 when their flagship store was boarded up in anticipation of large protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, and the filmed it again last week, in May 2021. What a difference a year makes, the famous annual Macys flower show is attracting lots of people, the store and the plaza outside were as busy as I hadn’t seen them since the beginning of the pandemic.