[ April 23, 2024 ]
The Election is near (that the left is working overtime to STEAL) and our President is ill (but recovering) Still, HOPE is on the horizon because WE have not given up! Trump 2020!
NYC business owners up in arms over threat of new lockdown
Business owners in COVID-wracked city neighborhoods targeted for a new lockdown ripped Mayor Bill de Blasio over the move Sunday.
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October 1, 2020. NYC. The restaurants have said, repeatedly, indoor dining at 25 % capacity is not going to work (even though out door dining will continue). The 15 days lock down was 7 months ago, economic ruin is certain for many, so they NEED to get back inside. ASAP. Even at 25%.
This economic disaster began by mayoral-governor fiat on March 12, 2020. (St Paddy’s Day still stares back from the long shuttered Smith’s Bar). It is surely unconstitutional. Yet, here we are. Forced to suffer these tyrants.
Finally, PERMISSION was given by the mayor and governor to continue serving food and drink outside …. and now inside, but sadly this comes too late for some.
Leading up to the return of a restricted indoor dining was the relentless teasing of NYC’s Mayor de Blasio with dates and occupancy restrictions that CHANGED again and again. The restaurants and bars were angry. frustrated; worried.
Business still suffers because the THEATRES, that feed all the other businesses (hotels and restaurants and TOURISM, remain CLOSED.
Times Square is a ghost town. Even 42nd st Mc D’s is GONE.
THREE restaurants in a row on 46th st. are closed. GONE for ever.
Economically, the city is DYING.
March 12th, the lock down began because people might get sick … and MIGHT die. A bizarre reaction that Americans accepted too willingly. The Dark Ages have returned.
Hotels and restaurants are boarded up for months and all it took was FEAR. Fear of dying, of getting ill.
BUT, people do get ill. People die. And hiding their faces behind paper masks, thinking they will avoid disease, is folly. What they should fear is how easily this country gave up its independence.
The bars and restaurants, trapped, begged, threatened and “promised to be good” if only they could work; feed their families. The answer was always NO.
Sept. 2020 – 6 months and counting) as De Blasio’s Cesspool of trash piled up . The green bags are dog poop bags – an eyesore because trash is rarely picked up. (slide show)
Midtown and a long row of unused taxis, casualties of de Blasio’s economic disaster. (slide show)
Restaurants at 6 months. We see wind screens appear – hoping to shelter the customers – in October. (slide show)
As October begins, the enclosures are finally blessed by the Mayor: they can STAY.
The homeless impact (negatively) the abandoned stores and theatres; another place to trash. The theatres remain closed, to reopen – sometime NEXT YEAR … with potentially insurmountable requirements.
Easy access urinals spring up over night.
The boarded up entrance to the once popular theatrical hang out, Joe Allen’s is now a POPULAR URINAL.
WHY did the citizens of this mighty republic roll over without a whimper. WHY are TYRANTS like de Blasio and Cuomo permitted to RUIN lives by fiat?
Another casualty of the never ending lock down,will Sardi’s close forever? [https://t2conline.com/more-restaurants-closing-could-sardis-be-a-broadway-institution-of-the-past/]
“Also rumored to be closing is Esca – 402 W 43rd Street who is stating they are reopening September 9th, but how long can that last with Mayor deBlasio reluctant to restart indoor dining because it’s an activity for middle- and upper-income New Yorkers. Also boarded up are Orso’s, Bar Centrale and Joe Allen, all on Restaurant Row on 46th Street between 8th and 9th.”
Without indoor dining, there was NO HOPE of recovery. Particularly if de Blasio withdrew permission. (Again) Last minute withdrawals are his style.
Sept. 1, 2020 : “Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio have clearly decided to let the city’s restaurants die: They won’t allow indoor dining, the only way for most eateries to stay above water. No matter that indoor dining and drinking (albeit at reduced capacity) is kosher in Westchester and Nassau, right outside the city — and literally down the block from a few restaurants in Queens. Nor that New Jersey’s now allowing it, too.The “Dr. No” duo don’t expect indoor dining to return until next June —[NY Post]
So the restaurants made a lot of noise AND hired attorneys. And then, by September 30th, success. The customers could finally go inside – at 25% capacity. It was a beginning. (and no more standing in the rain)
FINALLY, October arrived. SEVEN MONTHS and the financial insanity had some good news: the outdoor seating would continue. It will not end as the 25% capacity opens inside.
Meanwhile, the people are still manipulated by the mayor and the governor, trapping their constituents in a dystopian nightmare; by FEAR. Will they ever release this city from their tyranny?
[Where indicated pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall]
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25 Comments
3 years ago
In Alabama, the state is divided by region. Last week, in Dothan (far away) we were denied medical care because of our position to not-wear-a-mask, while in Andalusia and Brantley (local) we are free to conduct business as we need to, mask-free in the doctor and dentist office we use. The color-of-law mandates only hold up where the people choose it. I was never so happy to get home to Jesus 2020 country in my life.
3 years ago
Sad thing is the stupid sheeple of New York will vote Democrat again. You get what you vote for.
3 years ago
3 years ago
3 years ago
Why even bother to visit NYC?
Tourism is dead … congrats to Cuomo and DeBlasio … a successful euthanasia …
3 years ago
Make NO Mistake,
THIS,
Is the blasio and cuomo Version of the .. 9 / 11
And they should be Charged with the “the highest degree of accountability.”
3 years ago
3 years ago
3 years ago
There are still quite a few excellent steak houses in Detroit. The “London Chop House” offers high-end cuts, perfectly cooked, at a high-end price.
In Detroit.
Does this mean that Detroit isn’t “dead?”
Nope. Detroit is mort. Tot. Caput.
The press likes to feed on stories like “the best steak houses in (fill in the blank)” because the press are communists, and want to pretend that “All is well! Remain calm!”
You can google “best restaurant” in Flint, Camden NJ, S. Chicago, etc. You’ll find that there are, indeed, restaurants that cling to life in those areas. You can have a sit-down meal in Baltimore, for sure. Lots of great restaurants there.
And if you are a local, and you know your way around, and you are used to taking precautions, and you don’t mind getting mugged now and again, and you’re stupid? You can still enjoy those meals.
But “stupid” is required. For whatever reason, some people just never, ever abandon ship. Even as the water goes over the whistle, they cling. They insist “THIS IS MY HOME! I AIN’T LEAVING!” even as the band plays Nearer My God To Thee.
NYC is dying. In many ways, it’s dead. Does that mean that every restaurant will close?
Nope. No way. There are going to be 8 million people there, when this shakes out. They have to eat. There will be places to eat.
Does that mean “the city’s not dead?”
Nope. No way. What tourist is going to visit, now? As more and more stories of crime come pouring out of The Rotten Apple, people will demur.
You can find a much nicer experience in, say, Boston. So far, they have kept the vermin contained. Having an ocean of high-tech and universities helps, but whatever the reason, Boston still has tourist-safe and tourist-fun places to go. NYC does not.
Broadway will struggle, as tourists reject having to drive through high-crime areas to park in high-crime lots. Tourists will double-reject having to take the Circus Train of Mugging into the city.
As the bankers leave, taking their paychecks to the suburbs and “telecommuting” in? So go the entertainment venues. The restaurants and bars will gear down, like they have in Detroit and other such places, and become grittier.
Some will survive. Just raw numbers demands it. A “dead city” is not a literal smoking hole. Buffalo, NY, is still physically there, with lots of people still there.
Most, however? Gone. In Buffalo and other such places, the middle-class have bugged out – and took their money with them.
As the high-end retailers leave NYC, since it is too dangerous to stay, so go the high-end accoutrements.
NJ, amazingly, will benefit… maybe. CT too, maybe. PA? Probably moreso, since the taxes are lower.
Let’s just hope that the people who stay are dyed in the wool communists, and that straight-thinking people bring a Conservative Wave to these erstwhile communist bastions.
It will be interesting to see the 2022 elections, more than even this year.
3 years ago
Reply to
Anonymous
Large cities do not define our country as a whole.
If they did, why do we have fly over country and suburbs?
Since their inception, large cities have always been more immoral and corrupt than elsewhere.
Another option is, people can rise up and say,
ENOUGH!
There are more of us than them.
3 years ago
Reply to
Anonymous
Hi THX.
Maybe. OTOH, it’s worth noting what is it that drove cities to exist, in the first place?
Village->Town->City, or however you want to define the evolution, is driven by a lot of things. Protection and defense. Commerce. Entertainment/Arts.
OTOH, there have always been anti-incentives, such as plagues and fire and crime and other such “problems when everyone lives really close.”
It has always been a balance, and it has evolved over time as technologies have advanced.
Many of the value drivers that created cities no longer require physical proximity. Many still do.
One thing, the one that worries me the most, is “concentration of takers.” Cities are almost a requirement for communism. You need a constant reminder of how you are a victim, and I’m not sure that the various modern social connection technologies are enough to satisfy that.
An online “I’m a victim” site isn’t the same as “let’s burn down the neighborhood.”
Plus, there has to BE a neighborhood to burn. The solitary farm is more like what’s happening in S. Africa. Our 2A and modern technologies could offset that. Visiting my property, for example, can be VERY hazardous to your health if it’s 2:00AM and you’re not invited…
So overall I’m not sure. The suburbs offer a lovely alternative for work-spaces, to the degree that they’re even needed. There are loads of small cities that are “gentrifying” and offering high-end dining for just one or two or three blocks. They give you the feel and quality of big-city dining, but they are easy to patrol and keep safe – and you drive home safely, not on a dangerous subway.
Great hospitals in the burbs, for sure.
Entertainment? Lots and lots of options outside of the cities. VR is going to drive this even more. If you can view a “Broadway Show” from what amounts to “the holo-deck?” And it’s not a recording, but the live presentation? That will drain some of the money out of real-life, I’d think.
Etc.
The economic and social need for cities, overall, is declining. They are becoming grittier and nastier because that is the need that remains – the communist need for proximity, to feed the resentment/anger that all “revolutions” start with.
The times they are a changing, that’s for sure…
Transportation? OK, you
3 years ago
Reply to
RobM1981
Communists like a slow death.
What better way to wipe out small business while offering FALSE HOPE?
3 years ago
While you are lectured to constantly wash your hands, mask up, and social distance, Cuomo and DeBalzio have NO PROBLEM with sardine packed subways! I guess they need the money and less people.
More here – https://www.soundhealthandlastingwealth.com/health-news/shocking-picture-shows-new-york-train-packed-with-mask-wearing-passengers-despite-lockdown/
Below are pictures of what is still in place now! It’s a germ pit on wheels.
How effective do you think that is with the traffic the turnstiles get AFTER rush hour?
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
Anonymous
As I read through your post – you read my mind –
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
In my historic New England town, to my utter horror, they are putting up posters with pictures of local Revolutionary War heroes — wearing masks. As we “should”. To “keep us safe”. A town which boasts of its patriotic connections has utterly forgotten the principles of individual liberty for which that war was fought.
3 years ago
I have no pity for a reliably blue city/state. They keep electing Democrats, so they get what they deserve.
3 years ago
