Seaside cafes and restaurants, usually bustling with weekend revellers, were largely empty.
Below, Praça Cantão bustles with weekend concerts and dance parties.
Chelsea, a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan, is a popular nightlife destination and is usually bustling on weekends.
But then a dip in the two-lane road reveals something quite different: a tiny river town that bustles on weekends with tourists roaming antique shops, dining at restaurants and playing, weather permitting, in the Delaware River.
This former poultry town in the Sonoma Valley, 30 miles north of San Francisco, is unusual in that its downtown bustles on weekends and holidays but tends to be quiet at other times, because most of the jobs have moved to outlying areas.
Eating and Drinking The original Primanti Brothers restaurant (46 18th Street, 412-263-2142) is a great lunch place in the heart of the Strip District, a neighborhood hard by downtown that bustles on weekends with food shops, street vendors, novelty shops, cafes and bars.
While inland hotels filled up, those along the coast emptied and shuttered, their hopes for a bustling Labor Day weekend dashed.
