The great Vanity Fair writer Marie Brenner has a powerful article about NYC during this pandemic, about how the city is mimicking, in its way, the time of the Great Depression.
She compares the make-shift hospitals in Central Park to the Hoovervilles that were built there, how desperation for survival invaded an area built for recreation. Brenner also write about how this crises compares to stories her father told her about the Great Depression -- and how a time and place that felt so distant feels so frightening recognizable today.
It'll be interesting to see what writing and stories about this time survive into another era. This piece might be one of them.
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