The city reopened and with that came a mandate to clear the streets of unhoused people who are playing music. Black people were particularly being targeted in this park. You would see like if a white person had an open container drinking a white cloth, the cops would leave them alone. But if a black person had anopen container, they would be hassled or arrested and removed. And I think if you weren't in a rebel city, right? Your experience of 2020 was only the horrifying parts, right?"
Jeremiah Moss’s Feral City is much much more than a Covid memoir. In many ways it is a continuation of his desire to understand how and why New York city has changed, and if there is still a place for outsiders or if it now belongs to what he calls “the new people.” We walked around our Neighborhood together to talk about what the city was like during Covid time and what the phrase “go back to normal” really means.
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