Coronavirus & New York City: Exploring a Manhattan Still Touched by Pandemic

Mass hysteria is a terrible force, yet New Yorkers seem always to escape it by some tiny margin: they sit in stalled subways without claustrophobia, they extricate themselves from panic situations by some lucky wisecrack, they meet confusion and congestion with patience and grit — a sort of perpetual muddling through.

— E. B. White, “Here Is New York”

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Madeleine Kearns

Madeleine Kearns is a former staff writer at National Review.

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Mass hysteria is a terrible force, yet New Yorkers seem always to escape it by some tiny margin: they sit in stalled subways without claustrophobia, they extricate themselves from panic situations by some lucky wisecrack, they meet confusion and congestion with patience and grit — a sort of perpetual muddling through.

— E. B. White, “Here Is New York”