Police responded to the 1000 block of Marsh Pointe Drive. Officers say they found an adult male who had been shot. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.
That friend lives in Florida now.
For the last 4½ months, so did my family. There’s a divide between people who stayed in New York City through the COVID-19 pandemic and those who left. Our family doesn’t really fit on either side of it.
A semi-satirical piece by Luke Winkie in the New York Times in March argued that returning New Yorkers should be made to pay a “resettlement tax” and noted, “I’ve never identified more with this place than I did in 2020. All the values I was taught about New York, from elementary school onward, came true last year: the solidarity, the saltiness, the stubborn resilience whenever outside voices declare the city dead and buried.”