Without the restaurants, shopping and theatre, NYC is dead. Unless you have a Guliani style crackdown on the thugs, the rich won’t live there and the tourists won’t come.
Forever, they’ve wanted us all in cities (Agenda 21). With large cities failing, this may reverse the decline of small cites and rural areas. It may also be a boon for all types of travel, including general aviation.
What would tourist come to see?
You can’t go into any buildings of interest: MOMA, Guggenheim, Whitney museums are closed.
Building are closed as is Statue of Liberty.
Restaurant’s are closed for the most part. I mean, who the hell wants to eat outside in Manhattan during the summer heat/humidity and it will be worse this winter.
No Broadway, Off Broadway, Radio City Music Hall, Opera, That awesome arcade in Times Square.
Ain’t nothing to do for a 1st time visitor.
Same thing in San Francisco.
Ghost Town. Nothing is open and there would ordinarily be plenty to see or do.
Hell, if you go anywhere without a Hijab covering you can be fined anywhere from $100 to $1000 and businesses not enforcing the burka lite mandates can be fined $5,000.
My little coffee shop, in a little town was just with 3 violations and looking at $7,500 in fines. They were complying with ADA and now are forced to not let anyone on the grounds or in their shop without a mask.
That happened because a few people who need validate their lives at someone else’s expense narc’d on them and the news story probably gave their pathetic, done nothing fun life some relevancy.
In Pacific Grove and Carmel this past weekend they were passing out tickets for masks, lawn chairs, sitting on a bench, sitting on the beach, entering the ocean, etc.
Didn’t take long for man to summons the strength needed to trash his integrity by giving a summons to another man....
Broadway will reopen early next year, as will many restaurants and many new ones. There are still plenty of stores of all kinds and varieties.
My wife is coming home from Ukraine later this year. I won’t let her land inNew York. Too dangerous.