[Opinion] What Lessons Can We Draw From the Time the Wealthy Fled New York?

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What Lessons Can We Draw From the Time the Wealthy Fled New York?

We all remember the beginning of COVID lockdown in the spring of 2020, and the resulting feelings of isolation, panic, grief and loneliness when faced with a new viral pandemic claiming the lives of so many. But, in Feral City, Jeremiah Moss documents something else. In New York City, during the lockdown, he noticed a rewilding of the city as people reengaged with public space. And this fostered the kinds of cross-pollination squashed by decades…