NEW YORK – In a normal September, leaders of nations big and small would converge on New York this week, giving the United States’ largest city a chance to show itself off as a crossroads of the world.But this year, the usual lineup of presidents, premiers, monarchs and other dignitaries won’t be sweeping into the city for the U.N.
General Assembly’s annual top-level meeting and the conferences, high-stakes sit-downs and hobnobbing that surround it. The assembly has moved online because of the coronavirus, compounding the pandemic’s blows to the city’s economy and worldly esprit.“We are a cosmopolitan city.
You know, we are the melting pot of the world, And to not have the world come to us this way is chipping away at this beautiful city.