Classic Mr NYC

The New York Times just published a long, magazine length feature called When New York Was Ours Alone.

The title of the article tells you exactly what it's all about -- the city, for once, was inhabited almost completely but its residents alone and not the tens of millions from around the country and around the world who visit each year. It particularly concentrates on the period last summer when the COVID surge had seem to come under control (although the infection rates were still high) and New Yorkers were out and about enjoying the city for themselves and each other. The article even goes so far as to say that this time was "glorious without tourists."

Well, this is some real ivory tower thinking. There was nothing, not ever, "glorious" about NYC in the time with COVID-19 -- not then, now, or ever. People were dying. The city's economy was in free-fall. Fear reighned. Okay, yes, so some places were less crowded -- but really? It was awful and I'll take lots of tourists and fully re-opened NYC any day!

I even blogged about it at the time, about how the city felt "in abstentia" at the time, how so much of it looked so close and felt so far. Go read that post and see how you feel vs. "glorious" opinion of this recent article.

Perhaps I was missing something.