NYTimes: ‘I Don’t Think the New York That We Left Will Be Back for Some Years’

It took just a matter of days to shut down New York City, once the coronavirus took hold. Restarting it will take much, much longer. The economic impact in the city from the global pandemic has been striking: Hundreds of thousands are already out of work; at least $7.4 billion in tax revenue is projected to be lost by the middle of next year.