N.Y.C.

So let’s circle back to N.Y.C.

When the five won their civil lawsuit, Trump tweeted, “I’d bet the lawyers for the Central Park 5 are laughing at the stupidity of N.Y.C. when there was such a strong case against their ‘clients’”

Within hours, a custom T-shirt shop in Manhattan was already selling a souvenir: a shirt emblazoned with, “I Survived The N.Y.C. Earthquake, April 5th, 2024.”

By the time the alert went out at 10:49 a.m. to the more than 1 million New Yorkers who had signed up for the Notify N.Y.C. service, word of the earthquake had already spread on social media.

The building, it continued, would provide “a workplace experience that is within the essence of N.Y.C. to help draw employees back to office.”