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Pandemic: Dispatches from Fun City Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust
May 5, 2020
“I still think it’s a fun city.”
Mayor John V. Lindsay (during a 12-day NYC Transit strike in 1966)
As I sit here in the epicenter of the epicenter -- not just NYC, but Queens, NYC -- I realize it’s been quite a while since I’ve launched a new article into the ether.
Let me begin by expressing my profound gratitude that (as of this writing and to the best of my knowledge) I have not been infected by this shape-shifting virus. However, like every New Yorker, I know some who have and some who’ve succumbed.
As a lifetime Big Apple native, I’ve endured blackouts, subway and sanitation strikes, terror attacks, blizzards, hurricanes, heat waves, crime waves, and more -- not to mention the daily experience of navigating an overcrowded city often without forgiveness or mercy.
None of this prepared me for a digital age pandemic.
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https://worldnewstrust.com/pandemic-dispatches-from-fun-city-mickey-z
