On the rare occasions I have left the city over the past few months, I have been asked the same question repeatedly: "How is New York?" People want to know whether they should visit and what it will be like when they do, and I tell them that they should come immediately because they will find a place newly awakened to pleasure — to biking everywhere, to dining sheds covered in peonies, to jazz bands turning up in Prospect Park on random weekdays, to Little Island and drinking orange wine at lunch.
In the city's most prosperous quarters, people are still at home — much of the professional class is not expected to return to the office until September — and the pursuit of the good life, aided by vaccination, has now resumed unimpeded.
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Credit...Lila Barth for The New York Times On the rare occasions I have left the city over the past few months, I have been asked the same question repeatedly: "How is New York?" People want to know whether they should visit and what it will be like when they [...]
