As NYC Staggers On, Cost to Lives and Livelihoods Keeps Rising

New York has been down before and always comes back, but can the city ever regain what’s been lost?

Times Square

Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg
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Times Square is quiet, Broadway is dark, offices are empty.

As New York City staggers though January, the cost of this pandemic, both in lives and livelihoods, just keeps rising.