I would love to see the Big Wall Street Firms start moving out of NYC.
They are already leaving; many have sent jobs overseas, and the post-9/11 backup site requirements (which need to be a certain distance from NYC) supposedly caused many to simply move the jobs altogether. As I understand it, most of NJ is too close, so southeast PA is getting the jobs. A lot ofthe original Occupy Wall Street protesters were laid-off employees of the financial district.
Friends that work in the financial district decribe companies keeping small staffs in NYC and a PO box. When Christie was attacked for stopping construction of a third tunnel connecting NJ to NYC, his critics were reduced to complaining that people who wanted to see Broadway shows might be inconvenienced; it wasn’t even about the mass of commuters that used to fill lower Manhattan every day. Those same friends say there are a lot less people going into NYC each day...