You knew New Yorkers weren’t going to let a global pandemic break up the party. To stop the spread of the coronavirus, city dwellers have been told to do the most un-New York thing of all: Stay home.
Most of us have taken it seriously, putting a hard stop on social life to protect the city’s most vulnerable. But, ever resourceful, we’ve quickly developed new frontiers in social life for a socially distant world — turning on our phone cameras for virtual happy hours, cleaning our apartments for e-dates and enjoying the opera from our sofas.
The city that never sleeps is now the city that never stops streaming. “It allowed us to step away from the conversation about corona, which is obviously so all-encompassing, and talk about regular life,