Imagining a second life for Midtown Manhattan's empty offices
Times Square on March 22, deserted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Eric William Chapman) Midtown Manhattan, a dense grid of office towers normally pulsing with activity, has been called a “ghost town” so many times that you’d expect to see tumbleweeds rolling through Bryant Park. Back in July, the New York Times declared that the commercial district was in a “ purgatorial phase zero” of reopening, painting an evocative scene of a food cart vendor scanning empty streets for signs of life. Months later, things have not improved much. Occupancy rates on city hotels, like those in Mi...
Source: nancyonnorwalk.com