{"id":102272,"date":"2020-10-31T17:07:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T14:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cuomo-de-blasio-have-turned-nyc-into-a-ghost-town-this-year\/"},"modified":"2020-10-31T17:07:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T14:07:19","slug":"cuomo-de-blasio-have-turned-nyc-into-a-ghost-town-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cuomo-de-blasio-have-turned-nyc-into-a-ghost-town-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cuomo, de Blasio have turned NYC into a ghost town this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Cuomo, de Blasio have turned NYC into a ghost town this year<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Who\u2019s afraid of the big, bad virus? Supposedly it\u2019s everyone who won\u2019t come into the city because the bug made it too dangerous. But what\u2019s really spooked them is our elected officials\u2019 spectacularly effective campaign to ruin New York City, and Manhattan in particular, brick by brick.<\/p>\n

The town\u2019s current pandemic peril is near-negligible. Its new-infection rate hovering around 1.58 percent<\/a> as of Friday \u2014 much of it due to a few \u201cred zone\u201d neighborhoods in the outer boroughs \u2014 is the envy of major world capitals.<\/p>\n

But Gov. Cuomo\u2019s and Mayor de Blasio\u2019s message for The City That Never Sleeps is: Don\u2019t Even Get Out of Bed.<\/p>\n

As penance for their early blunders that drove the virus\u2019 explosive spread last winter, they overcompensate with draconian measures that took away much of the city\u2019s energy and allure.<\/p>\n

My suburban friends who won\u2019t come to town say it\u2019s \u201ctoo dangerous.\u201d They\u2019re embarrassed to admit the real reason: Much about the city they once loved to visit just plain stinks.<\/p>\n

Office towers are 85 percent empty, threatening landlords\u2019 ability to pay taxes if tenants walk away from leases. The scarcity of Midtown and Downtown workers is ruinous to shops and restaurants. But why should private-sector employees return to their desks when de Blasio refuses to call back<\/a> his own, 350,000-strong workforce? Could City Hall send a more damaging signal?<\/p>\n

Cuomo, hoping for a Joe Biden victory to bring the state and city gazillions of dollars in federal relief, seems hell-bent on making our plight as terrible as possible with irrational, inconsistent lockdowns and restrictions.<\/p>\n

Instead of cheerleading for the city\u2019s economy on which the whole state depends, he subjects us every morning to a boilerplate \u201cnews<\/a> conference\u201d touting his imagined valor in taming the virus which \u201ccame from Europe but they didn\u2019t tell us that<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

His non-resident \u201cquarantines,\u201d while manifestly unenforceable, create a Leningrad-under-siege mentality.<\/p>\n

The Big App<\/a>le\u2019s movie theaters remain shut down, even though they\u2019re open everywhere else in the state.<\/p>\n

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The spike in violence has driven New Yorkers to the suburbs.<\/span>Paul Martinka<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Restaurants must operate at a non-sustainable 25 percent capacity indoors, even though they\u2019ve been at 50 percent everywhere else<\/a> in the state since July with no known ill effects.<\/p>\n

Broadway and concert halls remain 100 percent dark, even though theater owners are willing to go the last mile to make them safer.<\/p>\n

Comedy clubs are closed, too, while shopping malls \u2014 which shouldn\u2019t have been closed in the first place \u2014 were allowed to reopen. The clubs are suing the city and state, but good luck to them in a climate that blames the virus, and only the virus, for everything.<\/p>\n

Case in point: When news broke two weeks ago that hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer will move his headquarters from Midtown to West Palm Beach, Fla., the New York Times claimed<\/a> it was \u201cprompted by the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then why is Singer heading for Palm Beach County, where the new-infection rate is above five percent? Likely because de Blasio turned our streets over to common criminals, \u201chomeless\u201d lunatics and Matterhorn-like heaps of uncollected garbage.<\/p>\n

There are glimmers of hope. To Cuomo\u2019s rare credit, the state-run subways are cleaner than in generations. Restaurants are bravely reopening despite crippling restrictions. Great museums and the normally impassable High Line Park, reopened after months of needless closures, have never been so pleasant to navigate.<\/p>\n

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Heaps of uncollected garbage and homelessness are the new norms on NYC streets.<\/span>Annie Wermiel\/NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It would be fair to celebrate those modest accomplishments. But optimism isn\u2019t part of our leaders\u2019 COVID-obsessed narrative.<\/p>\n

Yes, the virus is mushrooming in other parts of the country. No one should be complacent. It killed my neighborhood tailor. My wife had a blessedly mild infection. A half-dozen friends had cases in March and April that ranged from near-asymptomatic to near-death with gradations of suffering, some of it profound, in between.<\/p>\n

But that was then and this is now. It\u2019s time for our elected \u201cleaders\u201d to fight for New York\u2019s future \u2014 and to sound like they believe in it.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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