Music can be heard in Times Square: from “We are the Cham­pi­ons” to “Hal­lelu­jah” to “Hit the Road, Trump” every­thing is sung in New York. And the post that trans­port­ed the postal votes is cel­e­brat­ed. New York is lit­er­al­ly over the moon! It’s only qui­et around Trump Tow­er. The police have cor­doned off the area around the for­mer res­i­dence of the incum­bent pres­i­dent, who has since moved to Flori­da and spends the days of the vote count­ing in Wash­ing­ton. Since Trump’s elec­tion vic­to­ry in 2016, there had been repeat­ed protests here, and demon­stra­tors had often shout­ed “New York hates you”. The area has now been tem­porar­i­ly declared a “frozen zone”, says a police offi­cer. Nobody is let in. All around this “frozen zone”, of all places, Trump’s native city cel­e­brates his elec­tion defeat in a par­tic­u­lar­ly fre­net­ic man­ner. After the news chan­nel CNN declared the Demo­c­ra­t­ic chal­lenger Joe Biden the win­ner of the US pres­i­den­tial elec­tion on Sat­ur­day, cheers broke out after just a few sec­onds. Peo­ple clapped, screamed and cheered on the streets and from the win­dows of their apartments.

Cyclists rang the bell, dri­vers honked their horns. A lit­tle lat­er, thou­sands of peo­ple are drawn to the streets of the metrop­o­lis with posters, US flags, cham­pagne bot­tles, flow­ers and musi­cal instru­ments, for a par­ty that does­n’t want to stop for many, many hours and puts all of New York in the mood for a fes­ti­val. “Those were four dark years for us Amer­i­cans and that’s why we’re here now to cel­e­brate this vic­to­ry that we achieved togeth­er,” says TJ New­ton, who is on the road with a few friends. “Today, that means free­dom for all Amer­i­cans. And hav­ing Kamala Har­ris as the first black woman as vice pres­i­dent is a huge step that means a lot to many peo­ple in this coun­try.” At an inter­sec­tion on the Upper West Side in Man­hat­tan, a young woman in a vuvuzela trumps and waves an Amer­i­can flag. The pass­ing cars, taxis and trucks honk their horns, many dri­vers put a hand out the win­dow, wave or shape the peace sign with their fin­gers. Babies clap in their strollers, dogs wear but­tons that read “Biden / Har­ris”. Peo­ple have stick­ers that say “Trump / Pence Out”. “The par­ty for Biden is amaz­ing,” yells a man into his cell phone. A group of women get a bot­tle of cham­pagne and plas­tic glass­es from a kiosk and toast with cheers. “No more Trump,” yells a man dri­ving past on a bicycle.

“Shut down tem­per­a­ture” Biden asks for a chance

The result of the US elec­tion was around five days long in com­ing, and to the grow­ing impa­tience of many peo­ple, votes were count­ed and even more votes were count­ed — but then the announce­ment of the vic­to­ry of Biden and his Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris for New York came at exact­ly the right time : Sat­ur­day lunchtime, bright sun­shine and tem­per­a­tures of more than 25 degrees. In the pan­dem­ic-plagued metrop­o­lis on the US east coast, which is large­ly lib­er­al and demo­c­ra­t­ic, and where, accord­ing to ini­tial counts, Biden has won the major­i­ty of the votes, there is no stop­ping it. Joy and relief break all dams. “I just had to go out and cel­e­brate,” cheers a woman — and peo­ple cheer back over lunch in the open air in a restau­rant. A man with a “Biden / Har­ris” T‑shirt car­ries a bag­pipe, a lit­tle boy plays the trum­pet and receives enthu­si­as­tic applause. “The votes of the vot­ers deter­mine the win­ner,” reads many people’s posters.

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