'Those of us who stayed [through 9/11 or the COVID-19 pandemic] stuck around expressly to preserve the New York we knew,' writes Stephanie Zacharek (szacharek)
Stephanie Zacharek is the film critic for TIME in New York City. She was previously the film critic at the Village Voice and Salon, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2015.f New York is a city of reinvention, it’s also a place of perpetual wistfulness, of missing people and things that are gone.
After waiting in a substantial line, a tourist strikes a pose with the Charging Bull statue near Wall Street, Aug. 24, 2021.A man with his tie unfurled crosses the street in downtown Manhattan, Aug. 26, 2021.But those of us who stayed stuck around expressly to preserve the New York we knew. This city is haughty and knows its self-worth; it won’t miss its traitors. Plus, we don’t need their lousy energy.
Even if the threat of the pandemic never disappears completely, it will subside. New Yorkers will come through this too. Those who left, good riddance! And those outsiders who feel the city beckoning, who are ready to accept both its challenges and its pleasures—please come. You’ll be welcomed by us lifers and longtimers. New Yorkers who were babies at the time of 9/11 are now grown up, nearly ready to start their adult lives. People who were 20 at the time may be raising children of their own.
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