Amid Coronavirus, Some Cooped-Up New Yorkers Buy a First Car

Subway riders now see the car as a safe haven. “I’ve sold more than I had in stock,” one dealer said.

Liang Zhao considers herself a “die-hard subway rider.” The Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, marketing-consultancy owner loves the people watching and camaraderie. She hasn’t owned a car since 2011, when she lived in New Orleans. But just before Memorial Day, she and her husband crossed the great divide and signed a lease on a black 2020 Volkswagen Tiguan SUV.

“We were living in a 600-square-foot apartment in Brooklyn, and we were just cooped up,” she says of her lockdown experience. “To get the car was amazing—to have the mobility...

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