How will we get people in and out of the Manhattan Central Business District post-COVID? We modeled and compared two plausible scenarios for the next six-to-nine months.
We won’t know the full impact of COVID-19 for months or even years, but it’s clear the pandemic is further exposing gaping inequities in our society. Our team is working to identify who’s vulnerable to the secondary COVID-19 impacts like homelessness or loss of income, and how we can navigate the coming rent crisis, preserve access to open space, rescue our public transit systems, and chart a path towards an equitable recovery for the region.
Recovering from the pandemic will require a mobilization of the region’s talents, resources, and political will to a degree not seen since at least the 1970s. We have a chance to not only recover much of what we lost, but to heal the wounds and divisions that new calamities would otherwise exploit.”
