Some feel that the situation is even more dire—that New York has reached a point of no return. And yet, here we are, still talking about the need to retain the wealthy and “corporate titans with global reach.”

>"The city is in the midst of a reckoning—not simply because of the coronavirus, but because of what it had already become."

Researchers at New York University, measuring the drop in volume, found it to be as many as five decibels