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The Death and Life of the Greatest American City

Welcome to New York City’s #NoFilter era

Glynnis MacNicol
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10 min readOct 26, 2020

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A running joke on social media among New Yorkers who stayed put for the pandemic roller coaster ride these last seven months is to match evidence of joyful city life that has exploded everywhere against proclamations of the city’s death. “New York Is Dead!” run the headlines next to photos of streets teeming with…

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Glynnis MacNicol
GEN
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Glynnis MacNicol is a writer and author of the memoir NO ONE TELLS YOU THIS (Simon & Schuster, 2018).