What will happen to the city after the pandemic? Here are five scenarios to ponder. : “It’s a ghost town,” former President Donald J. Trump said of New York City last fall during a presidential debate. “It’s dying, everyone’s leaving New York.” “It’s completely dead,” said the self-help author and provocateur James Altucher in a blog essay called “New York Is Dead Forever … Here’s Why” that was endlessly dissected, and mocked, last summer. “Businesses are remote and they aren’t returning to the office,” he wrote.