Autumn is in the air, COVID-19 cases in NYC continue to rise: The Post’s week in photos

Josh Sausville, 39, driver and tour guide gives a family a horse carriage ride in Central Park on Oct. 4, 2020. Sausville says he and the other drivers are alternating when they show up since there isn’t enough work to go around due to diminished tourism from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stephen Yang

B’way dancers perform in Times Square Plaza Manhattan for support of Biden for president on Oct. 3, 2020.

G.N. Miller

A NYPD officer near an ad outside St. Patricks Cathedral during mass on Oct. 5, 2020.

Matthew McDermott

Madelyn Todd, a teacher at P.S. 373, poses for a portrait, while under quarantine in Brooklyn on Oct. 3, 2020.

J.C. Rice

A couple shares a tender embrace in Central Park during the coronavirus pandemic in New York City on Oct. 8, 2020.

Christopher Sadowski

People dining outdoors during the coronavirus pandemic or COVID-19 pandemic on E79th Street in New York, NY on Oct. 8, 2020. (Photo/Christopher Sadowski)

Christopher Sadowski

Members of the Borough Park Orthodox community gather on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020 in Brooklyn, N.Y. Hundreds of members of the Borough Park Orthodox community took to the streets last night, defying orders to disperse and lighting a fire in protest of new state-mandated restrictions imposed on area synagogues, schools and non-essential businesses over a COVID-19 surge.

James Keivom

Nafsica, 29, played in “Rocktopia” on Broadway performs a duet with Zaxai, 30, who was a 2018 “Voice” finalist, in Times Square Plaza in Manhattan on Oct. 4, 2020.

G.N. Miller

Two workers are pulled inside from a tipping scaffold at 250 Vasey Street in Manhattan on Oct. 4, 2020.

G.N. Miller

The Atlas Statue at Rockefeller Center masks up as Covid-19 numbers begin to rise in New York City on Oct. 6, 2020.

Matthew McDermott

Police at the scene where a person was found dead on the northbound Henry Hudson Parkway at W178th Street in New York, NY around 9:15 p.m. on Oct. 8, 2020.

Christopher Sadowski

Firefighters respond to a 2-alarm fire on the corner of 31st Street and Lexington Ave, in New York City on Oct. 8, 2020.

Matthew McDermott

Tim Leiweke, CEO of the Oak View Group, leading a tour of the new UBS Arena under construction, which is the new home of the New York Islanders in Elmont, New York.

Charles Wenzelberg

Val Pishchyk, 39, leads a small group soccer training class for kids in Hudson River Park on Oct. 7, 2020.

Helayne Seidman

Masked couples dance to Chinese classical music underneath the FDR near Clinton Street on Oct. 7, 2020.

William Farrington

FDNY cut the locks off a building’s entrances and shut down a venue after finding a faulty sprinkler system, after a private event held by HCS, an organization which aides families with special needs children in Borough Park, Brooklyn on Oct. 5, 2020.

Stephen Yang

Animal right protestors against horse driven carriages in Manhattan, New York on Oct. 3, 2020.

Rashid Umar Abbasi

Christina Hansen, a horse carriage driver, shares a moment with Hover at the Clinton Park Stables in Manhattan, New York, on Oct. 3, 2020

Rashid Umar Abbasi

A man wearing a “2020 sucks” face mask pictured during the coronavirus pandemic on Oct. 8, 2020.

Christopher Sadowski