The Big Apple will enter Phase One of reopening Monday amid the coronavirus — with retail shops set to start curbside or in-store pickup service as construction and manufacturing rev up again.
“It’s a big day for New York City,’’ Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday, adding that the Apple “has met all the [health] metrics,’’ including the one involving its number of new infections, which dropped to 781 cases, or around 1 percent of those tested, Saturday — the lowest rate since March 16.
The city’s subways should be at 95 percent of their pre-pandemic service by Monday to help get people around, officials have said. Masks are required and will be handed out to straphangers as needed, although ridership is expected to be no more than 15 percent of its usual level.
New York City is the final region in the state to go to Phase One.
In addition to retail curbside service and in-store pickups and drop-offs, construction is allowed to resume, as is manufacturing, wholesale trade and agriculture work under the state guidelines.
Retail-industry groups have predicted a trickling of city businesses starting up again Monday, as they begin to maneuver the new normal of social distancing and heightened health concerns amid the deadly pandemic.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that he is still “cautious’’ about moving into Phase Two, which would allow many workers to return to their offices, restaurants and bars to offer outdoor seated service, retail shops to operate in-store business and other places such as hair salons to reopen, although at 50 percent capacity.
While Phase Two could occur as soon as two weeks from Monday, or June 22, under state guidelines, Hizzoner repeated that he wasn’t ready to commit to that date, instead saying, “Think about the beginning of July as the target.
“I want to keep expectations low on that,” he said of Phase Two.
“We are not like other regions of the state. We were the epicenter, and we remain the epicenter,” the mayor said.
Get this fucking straight; The only reason de Blasio killed his dumbass curfew is because the city is reopening tomorrow. And as this article shows, the city isn't fucking ready at all.
And get this also straight; because de Blasio's daughter got arrested protesting against the NYPD, he decided to ground the whole city for a week.
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manufacturing, wholesale trade and agriculture work under the state guidelines.
Besides wholesale how big are these industries in NYC?
Seriously I thought I was already opened! Over 100 people in a local park which is still closed. People sitting together in their backyards having parties till 3am this weekend with loud music and talking. Seeing lots not wearing masks. People there is still the threat of the virus out there.
10 days of half a million people at to arm protests... Corona virus and or social distancing is or was a joke
NYC is in finacial Ruins ! Facing Financial Ruin Because of the Pandemic/Riots and elected DeMoRats who have overspent our Taxes. The 1970's all over again.
Wait and see what's installed/removed in the Budget in the next few weeks.
Good now everyone pay your rent to your LANDLORD and remember to vote !
From where I'm at, a long, long, way from NYC. Which I left many years ago. Our county had 15 cases, no deaths and all recovered. What happened in NYC? Was it that Cuomo and DeBlasio mismanaged the whole damn thing or was it some sort of democrat publicity stunt that went wrong? You figure it out, I already have.
I wonder where their ideas will be when headlines scream 1000s infected 100s dead from the virus.
Right about the time Trump 2.0 get wheeled out demanding a debate with Joe.
People there is still the threat of the virus out there.
Yes, WuFlu virus doesn't care about your woke politics or Instagram pictures at a BLM protest.
Yeah sure. This whole thing was just nonsense to begin with sorry to say. They tell you to quarantine for 14 to 17 days and if we have been in quarantine for almost 3 months, then why are people still infected? I mean especially after most of the country was quarantined for 1 month or more and people were taking it seriously at the beginning. So why dont the "experts" tell us how long an asymptomatic person can carry this thing for? I dont understand any of it. The "experts" aren't telling us anything useful. Plus, 98 percent of people who have gotten this thing has recovered or remained asymptomatic from it. So it pretty much tells me that maybe you should have just protected the elderly in the nursing homes (which is never done) and just let whoever is afraid of going out, stay home.
Hundreds of NYPD are considering resignation:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-nypd-commissioner-claims-600-officers-considering-exit-from-the-force-amid-george-floyd-protests
Great, so what happens if the riots break out after Trump gets reelected and these cops are gone and a like number decides to have a 'sick-in'?
The media has lost all credibility (going nuts over a publicity stunt of Trump with a bible while all but ignoring a burned out church behind him). Should be interesting to see how they spin anticipated future crime levels in NYC as we return to the 70s.
Tucker: Black Lives Matter is now a political party.
Those mobs will be tomorrow's thought police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7aQ02YX7qo
Drive around the city - look at all the empty and boarded up stores. Tell the media to stop wasting our time with the foolish mob. Lets get back to the real world.
Rich fleeing cities
https://www.sfgate.com/living-in-sf/article/Wealthy-buyers-in-mad-rush-to-leave-SF-15324574.php
Corona Virus already starting to return:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/us-coronavirus-cases-have-been-slowly-ticking-up-since-memorial-day.html?__twitter_impression=true&recirc=taboolainternal
Thanks guys -
Fortunately UK news is not under the same gag order by the left as US news outlets.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11815648/anti-racism-demos-spread-coronavirus-scientists/
Covid deaths even at inflated Democrat MSM numbers will continue to decline despite BLM ANTIFA riots. Showing the entire flu lockdown to be the election year scam it was from the start.
Sorry, but Whitestone died at least thirty years ago. That's how fast news travels in Queens.
Yeah sure. This whole thing was just nonsense to begin with sorry to say. They tell you to quarantine for 14 to 17 days and if we have been in quarantine for almost 3 months, then why are people still infected? I mean especially after most of the country was quarantined for 1 month or more and people were taking it seriously at the beginning. So why dont the "experts" tell us how long an asymptomatic person can carry this thing for? I dont understand any of it. The "experts" aren't telling us anything useful. Plus, 98 percent of people who have gotten this thing has recovered or remained asymptomatic from it. So it pretty much tells me that maybe you should have just protected the elderly in the nursing homes (which is never done) and just let whoever is afraid of going out, stay home.
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No offense but do you read the news? Places like Corona Queens have high cases due to inability for people to social distance properly. Then you have people who are essential workers. Why do you think Amazon warehouses and meat processing plants were have high infection rates? Brooklyn and the Bronx have high cases as well.
The government can tell you to do something but if you ignore or can’t practice safety measures then you will get infected just like medical staff working with infected patients have a greater chance of infection.
The experts are dealing with a new virus. You expect them to under how it functions with absolute certainty when it mutates as well? HIV still doesn’t have a vaccine nor the ever mutating influenza virus.
Do you watch the news? Yes, people do recover after you can get sick enough to need to be hospitalized and even intubated and on a ventilator. People who recover also can suffer from lung damage. The virus also attacks other internal organs such as the heart, kidney.
People in Brazil are reported dying in their beds because people react differently and some can deteriorate very quickly.
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