[dennisw]

As this article explains the advent of universal high-bandwidth internet means the white collar and finance professionals who used to depend on Manhattan’s central location can now work anywhere. 

You get it! Bandwidth tells the tale but the author only mentions it once or twice.
NYC had great culture as far as museums, concerts, opera, food. But when most of these are are shutdown due to Covid--XYZ, who wants to visit and drop tourist dollars there.

[Junk Silver]

“NYC had great culture as far as museums, concerts, opera, food.”

What made that great culture and food possible was a combination of highly paid professionals who worked in Manhattan and spent massively there and tourists from all over the world.

I don’t see those highly paid professionals ever coming back in those numbers. It takes years to build up a massive tourism industry like Manhattan had. A big draw to those tourists was the perception that Manhattan was a safe place to visit. That perception no longer exists. (Thank you Bill DeBlasio!)

All those tourists are not just going to suddenly reappear when some governing authority declares the Pandemic to be “over”.