Dispatch from downstate: Life in an epicenter
Picture the biggest city in the United States. Now imagine everything that makes it unique going dark: the theaters, the restaurants, the museums, the bookstores, the bars, the parties and lectures and meetings and rallies; even the hair and nail salons. It’s been eerie watching one of the world’s great cities disappear virtually overnight, a necessary casualty of coronavirus-related restrictions. Depending on how long the shutdown persists, many businesses will have a hard time roaring back …