Before the pandemic, Hailey Vogel lived an itinerant life enabled by the Big Apple’s robust transit system. A research manager at New York University, Vogel—like many New Yorkers—used mass transit daily to get to and from work, to visit friends and to run errands of all sorts before stay-at-home orders and a lingering fear of catching Covid-19 in enclosed spaces brought the city to a virtual standstill. But even though New York City’s infection rates have waned and the city slowly began to reopen its economy in June, the 26-year-old Brooklynite has yet to step foot on a public bus or take a subway line since March. “I’m not there yet,” Vogel said. “I’m not confident that things are clean […]