What is weird about DeBlasio’s statement is that there’s no evidence that he particularly cares about the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens or Staten Island, either.
His voters don’t live in Midtown. So he doesn’t care.
He will start caring when the “work from home” professional people get re-assigned to officially be working from Texas, and change their tax residence to Florida.
Why did young people WANT to live in NYC? Partially, it was for the night life, Broadway, great restaurants — which DeBlasio closed. Why stay home in a tiny NYC apartment?