Defund police.
Now this.
Does Soros simply hate doughnuts?
Nah he's just more of a bagel kind of guy.
Defund police.
Now this.
Does Soros simply hate doughnuts?
Airline shares have erupted in August after federal data showed a bump in air travel volumes is now at five-month highs.
The latest data via Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints at U.S. airports has surged in the last ten days, now at the highest levels since mid-March. However, TSA's total traveler throughput data for the same weekday one year ago (Monday, August 10) is still down nearly 70%.
For the broke millennials, whom many are unemployed, and set to receive another stimulus check, here are some unbelievable roundtrip deals later this month (should be around the time when the next checks arrive):
- New York City to Miami for $27
- New York City to Atlanta for $27
- New York City to New Orleans for $58
- New York City to Dallas for $27
- New York City to Los Angeles $51
A coalition of 100 Staten Island and Brooklyn restaurants are planning a class-action lawsuit to force the city and state to reopen indoor dining in New York.
“It feels like the government is moving the goal posts,” said Thomas Casatelli, who owns four restaurants in the two boroughs including the self-described “taco joint” Ho’Brah in Bay Ridge and West Brighton.
“We were supposed to be open July 6, now we’re hearing from the mayor we can’t open until there’s a vaccine. Who knows when that will be,” Casatelli said Thursday at a Staten Island press conference with other restaurateurs, their lawyers and local elected officials.
“The business owners that are here today, they did what they were told to do. They did what they had to do to help flatten the curve,” said Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis at the event.
“We met the metrics, so why are we being discriminated against as a municipality?” she asked.
The city’s positive testing rate is under 1 percent and every other county in the state allows indoor dining at partial capacity.
Indoor dining was part of Phase Three of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s coronavirus reopening plan. New York City entered that phase in early July, but the governor and the mayor have only allowed outdoor dining within the five boroughs.
De Blasio said during a City Hall press conference Thursday there’s no timetable to fully reopen local restaurants because “we have to see a lot more improvement in fighting this virus.” Earlier this week, de Blasio said indoor dining might not return until there’s a coronavirus vaccine.
“We are putting together a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the Staten Island and Bay Ridge restaurant owners against the mayor, against the governor on the basis of they’ve completely exceeded their authority and stepped on the Constitution of the United States,” Lou Gelormino, attorney for the eateries, said at the press conference.
His co-counsel, Mark Fonte, said the suit will be filed in Staten Island Supreme Court within the next two weeks.
“What put the restaurateurs over the edge was [the mayor’s] announcement the other day that there will be no indoor dining until there’s a vaccine. Enough is enough. These restaurant owners simply can’t afford to shut down for the winter season,” he said.
Andrew Rigie, head of the NYC Hospitality Alliance, is not a party to the suit, but also doesn’t oppose the legal action.
“We’re reviewing our options and we will review this lawsuit. We still hope to work cooperatively with Governor Cuomo to open restaurants up indoors, but as I said yesterday, many restaurant owners have had enough and now the court may have to decide this issue.
“It’s unfortunate it had to get to this point,” Rigie said.
His group surveyed city eateries and found that 83 percent couldn’t make their full rent in July.
A spokesman for the mayor declined to comment on potential litigation and referred to de Blasio’s recent remarks on the issue.
Reps for the governor did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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The abandonment of New York City
New York City is a success story in beating back COVID-19, but many of its wealthiest and most successful residents have fled.www.axios.com
Cross posted.
They’re saying that the solution is to make up the economic loss by replacing the people who left with migrants.
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The abandonment of New York City
New York City is a success story in beating back COVID-19, but many of its wealthiest and most successful residents have fled.www.axios.com
Cross posted.
They’re saying that the solution is to make up the economic loss by replacing the people who left with migrants.
Optimists include Andrew Hacker, Queens College professor, Upper West Sider and author of a new Trump book called "Downfall," who tells Axios that the city will bounce back.
- "What’s going to really save New York is immigrants," says Hacker, who has taught political science to many generations of them.
- While lots of New Yorkers are leaving, "out there in Bangalore and Ukraine and Natal, there are people who want to be New Yorkers" who will gladly take their place, bringing their ambition and brainpower.
“The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and Citywide Events is working in close coordination with the production to ensure guidelines are being followed,” a City Hall spokesperson said, adding that the NYPD unit will be doing “compliance checks during the production.”
But unlike other travelers, the VMA musicians, singers and dancers won’t have to follow a state rule to quarantine for 14 days if they come to New York from any of 34 states, including California and Florida, with average COVID infection rates exceeding 10 percent.
Under an executive order by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, anyone who violates the quarantine order is subject to a fine up to $10,000 or up to 15 days in jail.
But the state Department of Health has granted the VMAs a semi-exemption to the quarantine rule.
They can “participate in the production of the show,” a spokeswoman for Cuomo said, “but they will only interact with other members of the cast and crew and will quarantine when not working.”
To receive the exemption, the VMAs agreed to police itself with “rigorous safety protocols including testing and screening and compliance checks by a special compliance officer.”
Some celebs are finding other ways to skirt the COVID-19 rules.
Kanye West flew into Teterboro Airport, N.J., on Thursday, then headed into Manhattan, where he pulled over on the West Side Highway to switch vehicles, and visited an art gallery in Chelsea, The Post reported.
NYC’s “Test and Trace” program, run by the city’s Health + Hospitals, has made more than 200,000 phone calls and texts to the restricted travelers since June 8, including 110,000 who landed in airports, officials told The Post.
The contact tracers have also knocked on 2,000 doors looking for people who didn’t answer the calls and texts, and found about half of them, they said Friday.
“New Yorkers we are reaching indicate that they are safely separating, and appreciate the resources we are offering to support them,” such as food delivery or a free hotel room if needed, a spokesperson said.
The city’s Sheriff’s Office has also stopped 2,197 private vehicles crossing the George Washington, Goethals and Bayonne bridges, the Outerbridge Crossing and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, a tiny fraction of the cars that enter New York each day. Masks are also distributed.
If drivers say they have spent extended time in a restricted state, they, too, must fill out a traveler health form and self-quarantine for 14 days, officials said.
The checkpoints and required forms have raised some hackles. Staten Island City Councilman Joseph Borelli called the rules “insane.”
“This is an unconstitutional breach of authority. States are added and taken off the (restricted) list a week later. No reasonable person can plan their life around Cuomo’s whims and de Blasio’s desperation,” he griped.
Music stars from COVID-19-infected states get pass on NYC quarantine rules for VMAs
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Music stars from COVID-19-infected states get pass on NYC quarantine rules for VMAs
NYPD cops will check out the VMA shows — to make sure artists and entourages are wearing masks and staying socially distant, city officials told The Post.nypost.com
Business has been so terrible for us that we had to shut down again. We spun it as "rising cases" and "public safety" (which killed me a little bit), but the real reason was simply that it costs us more to have the lights on than we're bringing in in revenue.
@Kona....so is this real or are people just magically testing positive? Do you know anyone who has it?
What a farce. Refuse testing. Refuse the vaccine. Refuse everything.