In normal times, our pre-Memorial Day weekend post discusses our excitement for the weekend and the summer ahead.  Unfortunately, these are not normal times.  Among many other abnormalities, no bars will be open as normal for the foreseeable future.  However, we find some of today’s conventional wisdom about NYC never again being the exciting place it was pre-COVID a bit over the top.  Yes, for a while, NYC will not be the same “city that never sleeps”.  But NYC will evolve.  The city evolved after 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy.  The evolution post-COVID will take longer than the aftermath of those two tragic events.  But we’ll get there.  We look forward to the day when we can once again safely pub crawl around NYC.