Jedediah bill Blazio, eyeing new shutdowns for the first time in months as coronavirus clusters grow this, as nearly ninety percent of bar and restaurant owners, couldnt pay their full rent in August and iconic hotels are closing their doors permanently, with just seven percent of the big apple hotel rooms occupied by tourists this summer. So can New York City survive? Another shutdown joining me now, New York, Post columnist, Karol Markowicz, welcome back to the show we love having you here. As always. This scares a lot of people can a roll to hear this, because the a roll to hear this, because the shutdowns have second round, is coming and wont be able to handle this its not survivable. We never opened thats what a lot of people dont understand its unfortunate that our elected officials are so drunk

with power that they cant move forward with this New York City, restaurants have still not opened for indoor dining at twenty five percent capacity, as announced by Governor Cuomo a few weeks ago. The rest of the state has been at fifty percent capacity throughout the summer and been doing it well right before the segment Governor Desantis of Florida said that he trusts restaurant owners to be safe. I just feel that Governor Cuomo doesnt have that same trust in New York City, restaurant owners, Jedediah yeah. There is also a fear that if life begins to rumor and these little clusters pop up, where you have some covid cases popping up that peoples- businesses, you just cant open, close open, close thats, not how you cant survive that. But I want to talk to you about whats going on in New York City, because there is a changing landscape going on and there is a lot of denial from a lot of people. I see you know tweeting out. Oh everything is great in New York City. It looks fine. I dont know what everybody is talking about. I have my latte in hand right Jedediah. I have been in

Manhattan, my entire life and it doesnt look so good right now. Can you talk a little bit about what is happening on the ground in New York in the city? Can you have one street doing great and the next street, which is really falling apart and decrepit and having high crime and having a lot of homeless problems? I experienced this the other day in the village driving down third street from the EAST village, all the way to the West Village, and you would hit like a neighborhood where a man is pantless and seeing somebody with a metal bar and a few blocks later, a beautiful restaurant dropped in from its it really matters where you are yesterday. I had an amazing day in the park slope, which has had zero murders this year. Other neighborhoods are not so fortunate. The way we have to move forward to save New York, the people living in these streets, happy blossoming areas have to care about the people that arent and thats really step one Jedediah yeah a key point here. Its not the

areas that are problematic are expanding and there was a time when those areas were retreating and less areas problematic.