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To the Editor:
Re “City Dwellers Weigh Saying Goodbye to All That” (front page, April 20):
My husband and I don’t have an escape place, but even if we did, we wouldn’t abandon the city. We’re among those supporting the few restaurants still open for pickup and delivery. We’re the ones keeping our food and drug stores open.
We realize the world as we knew it is over. It may take years for all of us to feel safe enough to gather in large groups, to meet in the tight confines of Broadway theaters. And social distancing would destroy the economics of large productions.
As someone who has covered New York theater for decades, 13 years as a first-night critic, I believe that there will be localized culture. New York will be changed, but it will thrive. Nothing can replace the serendipity that takes place in person-to-person encounters. Nothing can make up for the vibrancy that density encourages.
When we leave our apartment, it is surreal to pass our mask-wearing neighbors. We marvel at how relatively quiet the city is, even though there are still some cars and bicycles moving. There are runners getting their exercise, and — most important — there are people.
Yes, we social distance. But humanity is everywhere, especially at 7 p.m., when voices join from windows and balconies, and walkers clap and shout, all part of the chorus supporting our first responders.
I hope the coronavirus will skip my husband and me, but the virus knows no boundaries. We want to be in our town, helping the businesses that are open, and knowing that in an emergency, help would be at hand.
Leida Snow
New York
To the Editor:
Re “It Could Be Years Before New York Regains Its Glory” (front page, April 21):
New York State and New York City have not lost any of their glory. Throughout this pandemic, in one of most densely populated areas of the country, their people, their medical teams, their support services and their government have shone bright in devotion to duty, intelligent behavior and their compassion for one another.
Their citizens have raised the bar for the rest of the country in all these areas. Financially, economically and commercially, New York will shine again one day, but history will record that the brightest moments were when it truly counted, and that New York glowed with the light of a thousand suns. “Keep Calm and Carry On.”
Marcella Woodworth
Venice, Fla.
The Recipes We Need Now
To the Editor:
Re “A Community Cookbook Comeback” (Food section, April 29), about the Baltimore chef and artist Krystal Mack’s project of updating a community cookbook from the Caribbean that features the recipes of people who are not professional chefs:
What is so desperately needed are recipes that are easy and quick to prepare. Basic recipes, maybe with a twist, with no introduction that waxes poetic for several paragraphs or minutes.
There are people who are tired from either doing nothing all day except counting cracks in the ceiling or trying to corral three children into doing their daily lessons while working from home (or working on the front lines).
Anne Skalitza
Spring Lake, N.J.
‘We Have a Resilient Economy’
To the Editor:
Re “Creating a More Resilient Economy” (Op-Ed, April 21):
One sentence in Senator Marco Rubio’s otherwise thoughtful article stands out: “Largely unable to import supplies from China, America has been left scrambling because we by and large lack the ability to make things, as well as the state capacity needed for reorienting production.”
We actually lack neither of these. American industry is fully capable of making things, especially when they are in desperately short supply. And the capacity to reorient production is fully within the powers given to the president under the Defense Production Act.
That President Trump has only reluctantly, and halfheartedly, exercised this power to mobilize the country’s industries to produce what its citizens desperately need is a breathtaking dereliction of his duty to keep Americans safe and healthy in the midst of a pandemic.
Sorry, Mr. Rubio. We have a resilient economy. What we don’t have is a responsible president.
Rick Sinding
Princeton, N.J.
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