New Yorkers are flocking to plastic surgeons as COVID-19 pandemic winds down

New Yorkers are facing the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, and it isn’t pretty — prompting them to flock to plastic surgeons to get ready for a summer of fewer masks, more socializing and a return to the office.

“Double the demand is a reasonable statement,” Upper East Side plastic surgeon Dr. Melissa Doft said of her increased bookings in $25,000 facelifts, $12,000 breast augmentations and $15,000 nose jobs. Dr. Evan Rieder, a dermatologist and psychiatrist added, “They’re coming back [from the Hamptons, Florida and the Berkshires] for procedures they wanted to do but were too scared to come in for” at the height of COVID-19.