The writer is chair of Rockefeller International
New York is greeting the exodus of its wealthy citizens with a shrug. The local elite seems a bit too sure that Manhattan is, and always will be, the gravitational centre of the cultural universe, or that the city is better off — as a professor recently put it to me — without all the “rich douchebags migrating to Miami”.
But complacency this deep could undo even the world’s greatest city, especially now. The pandemic has shown…
