GHOST TOWN: NYC’s unemployment is double national average, ONLY 16% of NYC employers say Manhattan offices at more than 50%

The Democrats have destroyed the greatest city in the world. Once a magnet, New York is now repels people. Only 28% of New Yorkers are showing up for in-person work.

NYC’s unemployment is double national average — as workers snub return to office

By Emily Crane, Ariel Zilber, Lydia Moynihan, Elizabeth Rosner and Bruce Golding, NY Post, March 23, 2022:

Persistent unemployment is taking a bite out of the Big Apple’s post-pandemic recovery — with businesses that cater to white-collar employees suffering as many offices remain largely empty.

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The latest statistics from the state Labor Department put the city’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate at 7.6%, the worst of any New York metro area and nearly double the national average of 4%.In Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest city, the comparable January rate was 7% and in Chicago, the third-largest, it was an even lower 5.1%.

Serious crimes are up more than 45% this year, compared to the same period in 2021, according to the NYPD’s latest CompStat figures.

Subway ridership across the city is currently still only 60 percent of pre-pandemic levels, the latest MTA data shows.

Workers still aren’t returning in droves to their big Midtown and Financial District offices — even after the huge decline in Omicron-fueled cases resulted in COVID mandates being dropped.

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Only 16 percent of major NYC employers said average daily attendance in their Manhattan offices was at more than 50 percent, according to the latest survey by The Partnership for New York City business group.

About 75 percent of employers delayed their return-to-office plans due to the Omicron surge and 22 percent can’t yet predict when offices will be even half-full again, the poll taken in January showed.

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