Restaurants are struggling even after massive government aid.Īnother lockdown will also nip in the bud, if not in the throat, the city’s residential rebound, which would not have happened without a widespread belief that we were again “open for business.” We would never again suffer through months when almost everything was closed and even sidewalk news boxes stood empty - would we?Īs for schools: What parents in their right minds will keep kids enrolled here when organized learning largely goes on without interruption in many other states? Brick-and-mortar retail is on its last legs. Levine/Sipa USAĬommercial real estate, although strong on paper, lives on borrowed time until leases expire at buildings barely 25 percent occupied. Hochul ordered another mask mandate Friday, December 10. Every landlord and business owner I know tells me the same things: The city’s irrepressible, beating heart will be stilled - institutionally and among millions of us who were ready to brave an uncertain, sometimes interrupted future that no one was ready to give up on. Simply put, the city’s real estate, media, retail and hospitality industries won’t survive even a brief second lockdown. Andrew Cuomo imposed on the state from March to June 2020, and only mildly eased in the months that followed, would guarantee the utter destruction of New York City that Cuomo’s jackboot only narrowly avoided. Make no mistake: A second total lockdown like the one then-Gov. 2 that she was not considering shutting down schools or the economy.

I’m not considering shutting down schools or the economy at this time,” Hochul said Oct. But she’s more than left the door open to locking down. So far, Hochul has wisely emphasized accelerated vaccination and testing efforts. She’s easily cowed to catastrophic effect: Her absurd mask mandate for offices that are largely empty only prolonged their empty state by giving employees more reason to stay home. With daily positivity rates soaring even in the Big Apple, Hochul - untested in high-stakes economic and social governance - will soon come under enormous pressure to lock us down once again. the variant - New York City’s survival depends on the outcome of Gov. Park Avenue tower filling up to capacity after $40M revampįorget about the vaccines vs. Woke food lovers have lost their minds over ‘cultural appropriation’įinal piece in WTC tenant puzzle continues to elude developer Silversteinĭesign firm to drop anchor at Dock 72 on Brooklyn waterfront

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