New Yorkers Who Fled Lockdown Struggle to Plot Return to City

One night in March, Laura DiMeo fled New York City for an Airbnb house in Cape Cod, where she and her daughter planned to wait out the Covid-19 lockdown. They’re still there, tethered by the internet to work and school back home, and unsure where they’ll settle next.

“We don’t know which way to go,” DiMeo said. “We’re trying to figure out what to do and what our proximity to New York needs to be.”

Commuters walk through the Fulton Street subway station during morning rush hour in New York on June 22.

Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg

It’s a potentially life-changing decision that thousands of other New Yorkers in temporary exile also face. And they’re running out of time to make ...