

New York still has the most Fortune 500 headquarters in the nation, but its ranking in this year’s Change in Unemployment Rate subcategory is so low that it now ranks out of the Top 100, at #107. The economic scars are all over the city’s 2021 rankings.

As early cases spiked, Gotham became the nation’s nightmarish coronavirus core. The greatest city in America-lauded and crowned in our ranking for the past six years and countless others for many more-was a ghastly reminder during the pandemic of the vulnerability of even the colossal, the seemingly all-powerful we saw here what awaited the rest of the country.
