NYC Is 'Dead' Forever: Here's Why Not

There are no single "Why I'm leaving NYC" essays that have aged more poorly or well than those of James Altucher and Jerry Seinfeld, respectively.

Back in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, New York was hurting. It was bleak.

Nearly everything had been closed for months. The horizonless shut-down that we were assured would be “over by Easter” was stretching into a long, heated summer of violence, rioting and destruction.

We were in Alphabet City, between Ave C and D watching the thin veneer of civi…