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.

May 30, 2024

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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…

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