Through the closures and openings, the mass exoduses and the trickling returns that New York, like the rest of the world, has endured since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there’s one corner of the city that has remained conspicuously silent through it all: Lafayette Street, longtime stamping ground of the Eurotrash crowd.
The “Euros”—the hard-partying twenty- and thirtysomething sons and daughters of European royalty, aristocracy, or just plain money—have been a New York mainstay for as long as many of us can remember. But they fled in March of 2020, for what is New York when its restaurants and bars and nightclubs are closed?
