Jerry Seinfeld Defends New York City As Debate On Pandemic Recovery Rages

  • Date: 24-Aug-2020
  • Source: Forbes
  • Sector:Real Estate
  • Country:GCC
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Jerry Seinfeld Defends New York City As Debate On Pandemic Recovery Rages

TOPLINE

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld argued in a New York Times opinion piece that New York City, the setting for his eponymous 1990s sitcom, hasn't died as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, attempting to refute a viral thinkpiece published on LinkedIn that argued the city is over.

Jerry Seinfeld performs during a November 2019 benefit.



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Seinfeld, #45 on Forbes' Celebrity 100 with $51 million in earnings as of June, wrote that working remotely can't replace the “energy, attitude and personality” that is “the whole reason many of us moved to New York in the first place.”





In his LinkedIn op-ed,