Modern City · event 15 of 15

1 March 2020

Covid-19 reaches New York. The first confirmed case in the city is announced. Over the following months New York becomes the worst-affected city in the United States, with more than 40,000 deaths, and empties for the first time in its history. It refills within two years.

The Modern City era

  1. 27 October 1904
  2. 25 March 1911
  3. 1916
  4. 1920
  5. 23 October 1929
  6. 1 May 1931
  7. 1934
  8. 28 June 1969
  9. 1969
  10. 4 April 1973
  11. 30 October 1975
  12. 11 September 2001
  13. 29 October 2012
  14. 1 January 2017
  15. 1 March 2020

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