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It’s been a very long time, Gotham. Lengthy sufficient to overlook you however to not neglect you. Lengthy sufficient to refocus our minds away from the ever-more esoteric points of interest (anybody bear in mind the cocktail bar in a Brooklyn broom cabinet?) and again on to the extra apparent charms that fell out of trend again after we took journey with no consideration.

In our absence, the town that by no means sleeps has been mendacity awake at evening worrying concerning the future. Half of the town’s tourism income comes from worldwide vacationers. In 2021 earnings fell by 88 p.c. No less than 1,000 eating places closed for good and companies in once-thriving strips similar to Church Road in Downtown at the moment are boarded up.

Miguel Santos, who has labored at one Midtown lodge for