{"id":142139,"date":"2020-12-26T21:02:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T18:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/signs-of-nycs-2021-comeback-are-everywhere-you-look\/"},"modified":"2020-12-26T21:02:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T18:02:47","slug":"signs-of-nycs-2021-comeback-are-everywhere-you-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/signs-of-nycs-2021-comeback-are-everywhere-you-look\/","title":{"rendered":"#Signs of NYC\u2019s 2021 comeback are everywhere you look"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Signs of NYC\u2019s 2021 comeback are everywhere you look<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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You want hope for New York City in 2021? I\u2019ll give you hope where you didn\u2019t think there was any.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We need the vaccines to work, of course. But when the story\u2019s written of how the Big App<\/a>le came through the pandemic, its true heroes will be the people who strode bravely through the gates of hell and never looked back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s to say, those who not only didn\u2019t give up on the city when there seemed every reason to do so, but who put their money down on its future. We\u2019ll see many more of them in 2021 and they\u2019ll be our inspiration to hang in with Gotham no matter how many \u201cexperts\u201d foresee only doom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sure, there are scores of empty storefronts in every neighborhood. Old news<\/a>! Less reported is that lots of them are coming back to life. A few blocks from me on First Avenue in the East 70s, shuttered Mexican caf\u00e9 Two Lizards was quickly replaced by something called Mexiterranean Grill. Nearby, a health-food shop became Bilao Filipino Cuisine. Who expected Filipino food on the supposedly staid Upper East Side?\u00a0<\/p>\n

What guts family owners must have to risk their all on a new venture amidst a pandemic!\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the retail front, middle- and high-end merchants are taking advantage of plunging rents to expand and even to open large new stores. Target is launching new outposts in Midtown, Harlem and The Bronx. Jeweler Harry Winston is doubling its space on Fifth Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the publishing side, an outfit called Street Media<\/a> plans to bring the Village Voice back from the dead<\/a> in early 2021, both online and in print. The legendary alternative weekly folded two years ago. Didn\u2019t its new owners hear that our city is dead?\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Bucking the trend of failing publications, Street Media announced the return of the Village Voice next year after it ceased publication two years ago.<\/figcaption>
Stefan Jeremiah for New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The new ventures can\u2019t make up for the many more businesses that we lost and more closings certain to come. But such seeming follies in the face of COVID-19 are no small things. They\u2019re the inspirational way stations in our journey toward eventual comeback.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thanks to them, recovery will occur despite the flight of some selfish rich to their Hamptons and Connecticut retreats. It will happen even with our mayor\u2019s one-man ruin of schools, policing, homeless services, the municipal budget and sidewalks, now buried beneath garbage heaps as big as the Matterhorn.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But \u2014 more hope for 2021 \u2014 Bill de Blasio isn\u2019t forever. We\u2019ll soon know who our next mayor will be. The Democratic primary in June will almost surely cast up the eventual winner. The mere prospect of a new leader in City Hall raises spirits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New Yorkers can also look forward to more concrete portents of revival. The magnificent, long-promised Moynihan Train Hall \u2014 inspired by the original Penn Station \u2014 opens in January after years of delays. Little Island, the floating public playground mounted on mushroom-like pillars in the Hudson River, makes its bow in the spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jeweler Harry Winston is doubling its space on Fifth Avenue despite a slumping economy.<\/figcaption>
Steve Cuozzo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Make no mistake: The year to come promises no instant shining path out of the dark. Nobody knows when Broadway and sports venues will reopen \u2014 just two hallmarks of our prayed-for \u201creturn to normalcy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

But with the clock ticking down on a horrific 2020, remember that December is always a dark month, even though Christmas lights pretend otherwise. And it\u2019s been darker before.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Imagine the mood in December 1941, when Japan\u2019s attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the nation into a war with no foreseeable end and dispatched America\u2019s young men to remote battlefields. The pandemic disruption of holiday celebrations pales in comparison to World War II\u2019s family separations that were tragically permanent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A few months after Pearl Harbor, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ordered Times Square\u2019s bright lights turned off for the rest of the war to protect the city from enemy bombers. Times Square today is empty but the lights stay on. We won that war and we will win this one too.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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