Hizzoner is in the mood for a party — COVID-19 be damned.
Mayor de Blasio announced Thursday that the city will host five large-scale concerts next month and urged people from near and far to flock to the Big Apple for the “unforgettable” events — even though New York is in the midst of a troubling uptick in coronavirus cases due to the delta variant.
The five free concerts, one in each borough, will take place during the week starting Aug. 16, culminating in a previously announced Aug. 21 gig on the Great Lawn in Central Park, because “we got to celebrate our recovery,” de Blasio said at City Hall.
“I am issuing a FOMO alert,” he said, using the “Fear of Missing Out” acronym popular with younger generations. “Unless you want to spend the rest of your life saying, ‘oh my god I missed it,’ you should get to New York City in the month of August, where amazing things will be happening.”
The Aug. 21 performance will feature Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon and Jennifer Hudson, among others. Acts for the other four shows are forthcoming, as well as ticket details, but these are the basics:
- Aug. 16: Orchard Beach, the Bronx
- Aug. 17: Richmond County Bank Park, Staten Island
- Aug. 19: Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn
- Aug. 20: Forest Hills Stadium, Queens
The party-hungry mayor compared the bashes to the legendary Woodstock festival of 1969.
“I’ve talked to people who missed Woodstock. My own oldest brother could’ve gone to Woodstock,” he said. “Don’t let that FOMO thing happen to you. This is going to be amazing.”
But underpinning the plans for the party week of the century is New York’s steady rise in coronavirus infections.
The city’s test positivity rate — which provides a glimpse of COVID’s pervasiveness — cracked 2% for the first time in over two months Thursday, with 644 new infections and 98 new hospitalizations reported by the Health Department.
For context, the city last year operated under the assumption that the pandemic was under control only when daily reported infections did not exceed 550.
Still, de Blasio has rejected calls from a growing chorus of public health experts and lawmakers to reinstate indoor mask mandates and slow down other relaxations of pandemic restrictions.
Instead, the mayor has argued the focus should be squarely on jacking up vaccination rates — a sentiment he reiterated when asked by the Daily News during Thursday’s briefing if he’s sending a dangerous message by calling for a pilgrimage to the city for next month’s “homecoming week” concerts.
“If they think the solution is for everyone to go home and not participate in recovery and allow ourselves to slip backwards into the world we were in — yeah, if that’s an option people want, I want to see that they have their head examined,” he said. “I mean this is crazy, get vaccinated ... We’re not going to cower.”
11 comments:
Mayor is fulla shit.
The good prime seating is reserved and cost big $$$ for corporates and rich people.
In the Rear "cattle pens" are for public who have some kind of ID card or pass you must apply for.
Excelsior pass or something?
Yeah, sign up and be mail and e-spammed by every entertainment marketing corporate in the country.
Nothing in this word is free!!!
Oh, since when is Springsteen and some of those others a New York bands ?
What bullshit, this is a scam to keep people in the city for the USTA US Open and Manhattan hotels.
Anything for money from Corporations that pay to have their names mention for their concerts many people cannot afford to go to.
It's the people that voted him in that scare me.
This whole "administration" should be impeached and suitably charged.
What virus?
All these concerts take place outside, where COVID transmission is negligible. But it's time to start wearing masks indoors when you're at stores or venues.
Being vaccinated doesn't ALWAYS stop you from spreading the virus.
"Science can only flourish in an atmosphere of free speech" Albert Einstein
In Bidens America the cops pull you over when you've had too much to think.
concerts take place outside, where COVID transmission is negligible.
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I know how mother f_uckers like Sony, Live Nation, BMG work and bull shit the ignorant public in the process.
The media wont tell the whole story not to upset the "Mayors Office Of Media & Entertainment" Who now controls every permit & access credential they need to stay in business.
The so called "free" viewing is in the back by the porta pottys.
packed in like sardines.
The private, corporate, city official and VIP is up front isolated with tight security with its own catering and fancy bathroom trucks.
That seating is usually $1500 - ($30,000 with group VIP meet & greet packages).
This was supposed to be a New York band weighted concert, now its Sony Music Entertainment. Non Sony New York bands & solo artists are locked out.
--In other words the stupid mayor gave a global corporation our parks for Sony to run a massive promotional advertisement and profit at the same time.
Public parks conveyed for private use for the rich.
Public spoon-fed dogshit and told its a meal by the media, a media that's run via "remote control" by the Mayors office of Media & Entertainment.
Police conveyed for private use for the rich.
What a heist !!!
-Joe
If the Delta variant is dangerous why hasn't Biden closed the southern border?
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