After decades of abundance, expansion and establishment of the tone of good urban fortune in the United States, New York is in a deep recession. The city is home to more than 8 million people, the nation’s economic center and a top destination for tourists from all over the world; his good fortune will be fulfilled beforehand.
But it’s not; in fact, 2020 was a nightmare for New York, a nightmare created almost entirely by those chosen to run the city and the state. Certainly, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo cannot be blamed for the Chinese coronavirus that invades the city.
But they can be blamed to the maximum for their disastrous reaction to the pandemic, adding Cuomo’s order to return COVID-19-infected patients to nursing homes. The resolution resulted in the deaths of at least 6,000 elderly household citizens, without adding patients who would possibly have died after being transported out of the nursing facility to a hospital. The government estimates that the number of deaths directly caused through the order is several thousand more people.
In a whole setback without logic, de Blasio now heads one of the strictest cities in the country in terms of COVID-19 policy. Far beyond the “curve flattening,” the point at which all New Yorkers have been promised that life and business can continue, New York’s leaders are still stifling small businesses in their city in an unprecedented takeover through elected officials and an executive mandate.
Today, businesses and citizens are fleeing the city at an alarming rate. The city that just six months ago promoted its undeniable role as a leader in tourism, hospitality and economic dynamics, is now in tatters; even the big retail chains and restaurateurs say “goodbye” forever.
“There’s no explanation for why doing business in New York,” Michael Weinstein, executive leader of Ark Restaurants, told the New York Times. Until the pandemic, Ark Restaurants’ flagship assets were the Bryant Park Grill – Cafe in midtown Manhattan. This place to eat was paralyzed by the pandemic; now only cooking and serving food is allowed outdoors, you’ve noticed an 80% drop in the source of income compared to this point last year.
The story of Bryant Park Grill, a favorite destination for tourists, fashion lovers, high-end citizens and business lunches, which summer tourism eliminated in the city had ended its business. This story is repeated in the restaurants of all five boroughs of New York.
The New York hotel industry has got down on its knees. Experts have even estimated that 85% of small restaurants could close in New York City until the end of the year due to the pandemic. But it’s not limited to small businesses. Chains such as Subway, Pret a Manger, Shake Shack also wave the white flag.
With millions unemployed, the mayor who has championed vandalism, looting and the suppression of freedom of expression while sanctioning Marxist graffiti on Fifth Avenue has also chosen to move the growing homeless population to luxury hotels.
On Manhattan’s Upper West Side, citizens were dismayed to discover that the city had housed some 15,000 homeless people in nearly 20% of the Big Apple’s 700 hotels. The charge of the contract signed with the hotel arrangement $78 million in April; FEMA agreed to pay 75% of the bill, but the rest is funded by tax-paying New York citizens.
“[This] will eventually bankrupt the city,” Central Park Civics Association President Michael Fischer told Fox News. “With more and more people fleeing the city due to the challenge of homeless people and letting down the police where they don’t feel safe, the city may not have the budget for that… and the crisis will only get worse.”
Right now, there’s little on the horizon for New York, which is a change for the city in trouble. In addition to the explosion of the homeless crisis, economic consequences and the continued strangulation of business and tourism, violent crime has skyrocketed. To the most sensible, the mayor of Blasio needs thousands of other people to leave the city to know that he doesn’t care.
“I will not beg anyone to live in the largest city in the world,” de Blasio said. “There are many other people who need to live in New York. There are many other people who come here no matter what.” The governor wasn’t so sure, even jokingly at a press conference, that he would have to bribe his rich friends to get them back from their vacation homes under the circumstances.