The city has long hoped to make McCarren a working swimming pool again (it was shuttered in 1984 and has only reopened for arts events in recent years), so it is not clear whether the shows, and their watery entertainments, will return next year.
Upon returning to my room to get my bag, I stopped in at the Il Pirata delle 5 Terre restaurant, which I learned had only reopened six days prior to my arriving.
It hints that the country's universities, which have only recently reopened after being shut down in 1996, may be closed again if there are more political protests.
The first of the Olympics Games lanes has come into operation on Monday – on the M4, which has only just reopened following repairs.
I see as many of them wandering the pavements and sitting in cafes down in the town centre as I do in the temples.This isn't quite Tibet the border lies some 150km to the north and has only just reopened to outsiders.
The Carlton St Moritz has just reopened after a major 18-month refurbishment and is now the only all-suite hotel in the ultra-swish resort.
The athletic center, which had been inundated in four feet of water, had only recently reopened.
The interior of the statue had been closed for a year starting in 2011 and had only been reopened for one day when the storm hit.
In the icy cold of yesterday morning, the retired Belgrade university professor became one of the first passengers to climb aboard the Belgrade to Sarajevo express, a direct rail link between the two capitals which has only finally reopened after almost two decades of interruption.
Unfortunately, this region, to the north-east of Kathmandu, was hard hit by the earthquake, and the road has only recently been reopened after mammoth clearance efforts.
