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for The Wall Street Journal: Midtown Manhattan With Fewer Office Workers, Imagining the Unthinkable
josé a. alvarado jr.
Jul 18, 2022
On the residential side, Manhattan apartment rentals are booming and sales are reaching record levels. But offices in Midtown are attracting barely one-third of their pre-pandemic workforces. “There’s no question that Midtown is going to have to reinvent itself,” said Chris Jones, a senior research fellow at the Regional Plan Association, an urban-planning group.
Photography and Video for The Wall Street Journal, with words by Kate King, Roque Ruiz, and Konrad Putzier.
Midtown Manhattan With Fewer Office Workers: Imagining the Unthinkable
The pandemic emptied out buildings in one of the busiest office districts in the country, and New York officials now face the reality that the Midtown economy might never be the same.
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