Whether you’re staying or going, the midyear is always a good time to ask for more money or another role you want. At a minimum, it gives your manager what she needs to advocate for you.

Whether you’re staying or going, the midyear is always a good time to ask for more money or another role you want. At a minimum, it gives your manager what she needs to advocate for you.

Now that 117,000 people have been reported dead from COVID-19, most people, regardless of race, could answer “yes” to that question. But the attitude in that post, the skepticism, might return or prevail as New York reopens and people get lax about protecting themselves.

When I touched down in that sprawling, tropical city on a breezy Sunday afternoon, I immediately felt closer to my native Haiti — 4,900 miles across the Atlantic — than I had felt living in Brooklyn for a decade, less than half that distance.