Sure, the tax revenue is nice. But ….
An outdoor diner with pooch.Credit.Daniel Arnold
April 15, 2021Updated 10:51 a.m. ET
Even without final data from New York City about how many people remained in the city during the pandemic, an abundance of anecdotal evidence exists about the exodus of its wealthiest residents.
At the writer Molly Jong-Fast’s Upper East Side apartment building, less than half a dozen of the 47 units were occupied in April 2020, she said. Mark Armstrong Peddigrew, a personal trainer in Lower Manhattan, said that roughly 85 percent of his clients left town.
At Loaves & Fishes Foodstore, a grocer in the Hamptons where lobster salad costs more than $100 a pound, there were 30-minute lines on Thursday mornings during the off season.
Sure, the tax revenue is nice. But ….
An outdoor diner with pooch.Credit.Daniel Arnold
April 15, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET
Even without final data from New York City about how many people remained in the city during the pandemic, an abundance of anecdotal evidence exists about the exodus of its wealthiest residents.
At the writer Molly Jong-Fast’s Upper East Side apartment building, less than half a dozen of the 47 units were occupied in April 2020, she said. Mark Armstrong Peddigrew, a personal trainer in Lower Manhattan, said that roughly 85 percent of his clients left town.
At Loaves & Fishes Foodstore, a grocer in the Hamptons where lobster salad costs more than $100 a pound, there were 30-minute lines on Thursday mornings during the off season.
New York is dead. Don t come back : Cheeky billboards in LA and Miami mock the 3.5 million people who fled the Big Apple during the pandemic as the true, gritty New Yorkers rebuild
New billboards have appeared in Los Angeles, California, and Miami, Florida, saying: New York is dead. Don t come back
The tongue-in-cheek adverts were taken out by Williamsburg art collective The Locker Room
Their message is directed at the 3.57million people estimated to have fled New York City in 2020 when it became the virus epicenter
They were replaced by 3,500,000 lower-income residents; a net population loss of just 70,000, compared to 140,000 in 2019, according to data from Unacast