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Patrons watch The Greatest Showman in Bel Aire diner parking lot, May 21, 2020. The Bel Aire diner in the Astoria neighborhood in Queens, New York City created a nightly open-air drive-in movie theater in the parking lot behind the restaurant. There is room for 45 socially distanced cars in the lot. Patrons pay $32 a vehicle to attend and can order diner food to their car. For every bag of popcorn sold, the diner feeds two first responders. Screenings, which are weather-dependent, are only scheduled about a week out, with new shows announced on the diner’s Instagram account and ticketing done through its website. The screening was a welcome, if surreal, reprieve for the New Yorkers who has been under strict quarantine since the start of the pandemic. (Photo by Timothy Fadek/Redux)
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