Getting Wired in NYC During COVID Times
In January 2020, two months before the words SARS-CoV-2, coronavirus, and COVID-19 became frightening fixtures in our shared lexicon, my wife and I decided to take on a major real estate project: renovating a 2-BR wreck of an apartment in a pre-war Manhattan co-op building. It would involve the removal and replacement of every wall, floorboard, fixture, appliance, and window, as well as the plumbing, electrical, and…