A report last month by the Partnership for New York City, an influential business group, estimated that roughly one-third of the city’s small businesses may never reopen. Also, a recent study by the city said that about 1,200 restaurants had permanently closed since March. Several New Yorkers have argued that cynics aren’t giving the city enough credit. On Monday in a Times op-ed, the comedian Jerry Seinfeld responded to the LinkedIn article: “Real, live, inspiring human energy exists when we coagulate together in crazy places like New York City,” he wrote. My colleague Sharon Otterman wrote that while that number is still very low, in mid-July it was only 10 percent.

Source: New York Times August 25, 2020 09:22 UTC