A Day in the Life of Wall Street Shows NYC at Cusp of Comeback
While the biggest banks prepare to bring workers back, a city of financiers gets shoes shined, hair dyed and beer-battered crab for lunch.
During the pandemic, much of the work on Wall Street was done from home or mostly emptied offices. But things are beginning to change.
Photographer: Amir Hamja/BloombergJon Corzine was about to leave his Upper East Side apartment at 7:25 on Wednesday morning before his wife, Sharon, stopped him.
“Your mask,” she reminded the former head of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Corzine, who’s now running the hedge fund JDC-JSC, stepped into the elevator and out onto Fifth Avenue to walk to the midtown Manhattan office where he spent nine months alone. But things are changing. A trader joined him in March, and next week he’s going to take his first in-person meeting since Covid-19 began ravaging New York more than a year ago.