
New York Is Dead. Long Live New York.
The New York Times
What will happen to the city after the pandemic? Here are five scenarios to ponder.
“It’s a ghost town,” former President Donald J. Trump said of New York City last fall during a presidential debate. “It’s dying, everyone’s leaving New York.” He was not the only one who saw all the closed storefronts and empty offices, and wrote it off. “It’s completely dead,” said the self-help author and provocateur James Altucher in a blog essay called “New York Is Dead Forever … Here’s Why” that was endlessly dissected, and mocked, last summer.More Related News