Reasons We’ve Loved New York

New York isn’t dead. But, on the other side of this thing, it’s going to be different. The Partnership for New York City estimates that one-third of the city’s small businesses — the places where we ate, drank, shopped, danced, sweat, fell in love — might not make it through the pandemic. To commemorate this tremendous loss in this sad, strange year, we are devoting our annual “Reasons to Love New York” issue to celebrating 500 places, big and small, that closed in 2020. “Here,” writes Carl Swanson in his heart-wrenching introductory essay, “is a wake for the places that defined our lives here — that gave us community and let us try on new identities. The bars where we came together for after-work drinks, the boxing gym where everybody thinks they’re in an action movie, the gallery that trusted you to build a cloud, the coffee shop where you were left alone to read, the restaurant with the full bar where you’d find yourself trying to eat after an all-night bender, the place that was so of its moment that it became a relic and then (deservedly) an icon.” What new city will we find on the other side? 

And keep checking Curbed throughout the week, where New Yorkers including Desus Nice, Padma Lakshmi, Emma Straub, Rumaan Alam, and Jiayang Fan will share their own tributes to their now-shuttered local favorites. 

https://www.curbed.com/article/nyc-businesses-closed-2020-pandemic.html