A day before the reopening, the mayor announced on Sunday the end of nightly curfews a day earlier than expected. De Blasio had ordered the curfew last week after some stores were looted while large crowds of nonviolent protesters gathered to demonstrate against police brutality and the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
"I miss going out every day to work. I'm not a house person," says Lucinda Doctor, an office manager who has been working from home for the Bronx Health Link, a health education and advocacy organization that is not allowed to reopen its office until theWhen she's out walking or taking short trips by bus for errands, Doctor says she has seen street traffic slowly returning to her neighborhood in recent weeks.
"My worry is that as more and more people start phasing back into the workplace, we're going to very quickly reach a point where our streets just can't hold any more people," says Nick Sifuentes, executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, which advocates for public transit in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut region.and has installed hand sanitizer dispensers at stations, and riders are required to wear face coverings.
Sifuentes argues that population density is not the underlying challenge to keeping New York's public transit safe during the pandemic, pointing instead to the lack of access to paid sick leave and affordable housing among many riders who depend on the subway and buses to get to work. To stay connected with her customers during the pandemic, she has been livestreaming on social media from inside her store to showcase clothing and other merchandise and lining up outside the local post office to ship out online orders. Her storefront is eligible to reopen to the public as early as Monday, but Ultarte says she is not opening her doors anytime soon.
"I think that's really unrealistic. A lot of small-business owners, we have small spaces," says Leila Noelliste, owner of BGLH Marketplace, which sells its own hair and skin products.
Thank God LV is opening up again. 🙄
I like how LV in the background is boarded up.
I thought rioting, protesting and spreading Covid 19 was phase 1!
Too bad all the retail stores in NYC are still boarded up & not able to start curbside/store pick up
Here we go!
VoiceOverbyTina Seems lockdown caused some unrest eh?
In otherwords.. fix all this broken shit these protesters broke or be fined..
After what we have witnessed these past twelve days with millions of people in the streets of all cities across this great nation,I will no longer be participating in social distancing wearing a mask or this whole covid-19 scamdemic.
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Sort ahead to didn’t he? I mean, if you allow hundreds of thousands of people out to protest, you sort of have to let a few thousand out to open their businesses. This is non-news. And you are stupid for promoting this as news.
Do you take your kool aid?
Does anyone care what DeBlasio has to say about anything
Trumps about to claim responsibility for major job growth in nyc.
There is no after unrest. There still is unrest.
Good thing they are destroyed by the riots!
Guess he and Cuomo finally figured out they'll be taking the blame for not only all the nursing home deaths, but the state's economy tanking as well. This is them attempting to perform CPR on their careers.
Businesses that survived covid get looted by rioters. So sad democrat leadership is failing
Hahahah Idiots in nyc
They just gonna get ass beat by looters, why bother?