New York Post columnist Karol Markowitz shares her views on if the city will ever bounce back.
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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.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-26.