New Yorkers Anxiously Exit Covid Lockdowns After 80 Days of Hell
After almost three months, the door is finally cracking open. But can New York City ever be the same?
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Editor’s Note: No city is more important to America's economy than New York, and none has been hit harder by the coronavirus. “NYC Reopens” examines life in the capital of capitalism as the city takes its first halting steps toward a new normal.
In late May, Jennifer Miles Lockhart marched across the Brooklyn Bridge with a throng of New Yorkers to demand equality and justice for African Americans like her. Now, with the city finally about to emerge from its pandemic lockdown, she was back in midtown Manhattan, prepping the offices of one of the biggest U.S. banks for its own reopening.