Posted on 05/01/2020 2:54:53 PM PDT by Rummyfan
If New York City doesn’t recover quickly and robustly from Covid-19, April 30, 2020 will mark the inflection point: when the city and state, afflicted with a historic crisis, decided to give up. That day, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York’s subway system will begin shutting down overnight, from 1 A.M. to 5 A.M. The shutdown is indefinite, so there’s a real chance that New York’s identity as the “the city that never sleeps” is gone. The ostensible reasons for the shutdown are public health and public safety. Earlier this week, Cuomo called conditions on the subway “disgusting.” The state and city want the state-controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority to shutter the subway system so that it can deep-clean stations and trains. “During this overnight period, the MTA will intensify disinfecting operations, cleaning its fleet of thousands of cars and buses every night, and further testing new and innovative cleaning solutions, including UV, antimicrobials and electrostatic disinfectants,” the authority said. The city also wants these closures to discourage the estimated 2,000 people— mostly adult men—who regularly use the subway system as overnight shelter. Though it’s hard to get a firm count during a pandemic, this number is likely higher now, as homeless individuals’ usual refuge points—public libraries and fast-food seating areas—are closed.
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Turnstile jumping and people afraid to go into it because of the bums. Also inflated pensions, overhead that appears to pay for nothing real...that is, the usual Dem stuff...but you get the idea.
HAHAHAH.
If it can't, it will be toast.
Drove through Dayton today. All empty buildings and falling down houses. So sad. Democrat ran.
Yeah, I used to like going to the dump....but it's all different now.
I think the population of NYC is going to go down post pandemic, especially if Cuomo keeps everybody locked up in their homes until November political reasons.
There will be very few small businesses left by then.
“Cuomo called conditions on the subway “disgusting.” “
He just now noticed?
I doubt if Cuomo will open up anything by June. He is a true believer.
The Underground, the subway system in London, shuts down at night.
A long long time ago I was living in Germany (the FRG) and dating a Swedish woman who shared an apartment with three German roommates. All the Germans said if given a choice they would rather move to the DDR than the U S of A. Of course, they never did either, just continued living the good life in Munich.
I fear the leftist scum will abandon NY and move to red states screwing them up forever.
“NYC is obsolete.”
Agreed.
The time of vertical living has come and gone. Its no longer necessary.
As such, choice and open space once again becon.
It aint “Go West young man”, but it will be obvious, to those looking, in a short time.
“...If New York City doesn’t recover quickly...”
It will never recover from Bloomberg and DiBlasio.
Yep. There is only one New York. It will continue to attract young Americans and immigrants.
Shut down. Homeless take over the entire system with tents and camps. How do you ever start the subways again.
After Dinkins, Rudy G came along. I know Giuliani is no conservative but for NYC he was pretty damned good. Maybe another from his mold will arise.
You know those lights were bright on Broadway
That was so many years ago
Before we all lived here in Florida
Before the Mafia took over Mexico
There are not many who remember
They say a handful still survive
To tell the world about
The way the lights went out
And keep the memory alive
Billy Joel - Miami 2017
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