Where New Yorkers Moved to Escape Coronavirus

[malaise]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/16/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-moving-leaving.html?action=click&algo=top_conversion&block=lone_trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=681612461&impression_id=348775924&index=1&pgtype=Article%AEion=footer
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New York City has long been a cheek-to-jowl town with cramped apartments and determined strivers. But starting in March, as the coronavirus outbreak here began, parts of the city emptied out, with many leaving from New York's wealthiest neighborhoods. Mail-forwarding requests show where a number of them went. Some abandoned the Upper West Side for sunny Miami. Others left Gramercy Park for New Jersey. Some left Brooklyn apartments for California.

In March, the United States Post Office received 56,000 mail-forwarding requests from New York City, more than double the monthly average. In April, the number of requests went up to 81,000, twice the number from a year earlier. Sixty percent of those new requests were for destinations outside the city.

The empty feeling is the most pronounced in Manhattan. In April, a little more than half of those requests for destinations outside New York City originated in Manhattan, led by neighborhoods on the Upper West and Upper East Sides.

The data from neighborhoods that saw the most requests mirrors cell phone data showing that the city's wealthiest areas saw the most movement.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

1. Dip your knife in some New York Covid...

and spread liberally over the country.

[malaise]

2. Had the same thought

[Igel]

8. Sharing is caring. n/t

[Maxheader]

3. I don't know where I would go...?

Corona is spread throughout the country..Billings Montana maybe.

[MissB]

11. Montana in general has low case counts

And few active cases.

I’d go with Bozeman.

[Joinfortmill]

4. Sadly,predictable

[Vinca]

5. I'm aware that some retreated to their ski condos in Vermont.

Can't say I blame them. There are signs at the border about quarantining for 14 days and if they do that it's fine.

[HockeyMom]

6. Mountain Vacation Homes

in the Poconos. We also have people who live here year round but commute to NYC for work. Martz Bus Lines (now shut down) runs daily between here and Penn Station.

SIL (NYC Teacher) has a coworker who commutes every day from Stroudsburgh to Queens HS.

It is not only NYC people leaving, but people living in other states who commute into NYC.

[malaise]

10. Very true

but this suggests that the rich departed from neighborhoods first and in huge numbers

[Squinch]

7. Seems like a good time to buy NYC real estate.

[Baclava]

9. So when they do come back will they use virus encrusted mass transit or all go buy new cars?