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The accumulation of homicides and shootings, 47% and 166% in August compared to last year, is one of the maximum facets of the crisis hitting the city.
With crime on the rise, empty department stores and apartments, and homelessness on the sidewalks, New York City will mark Friday the 19th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks amid the coronavirus pandemic and a fierce combat with the White House.
The city will celebrate its annual rite in remembrance of the nearly 3,000 people who died in the bloodiest terror attack in American history, interrupted by a minute’s silence when Al Qaeda jihadists smashed two hijacked planes in the World Trade towers. Center.
Instead of reading the call for the dead, this year the families of the sick have been searched. But they will still be provided at the “Ground Zero” memorial.
The site museum will also open for the first time since the new coronavirus paralyzed the city in March.
Nearly two decades after the attacks, it remains synonymous with New York’s heroism and resilience.
City officials have emphasized the latter point in recent months, as the infection rate with Covid-19, which has killed another 23,000 people here, the early epicenter of the disease in the United States, has been reduced to less than one percent.
New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo reminded New Yorkers Tuesday that their resistance will be tested through the pandemic’s social and economic “legacy. “
Empty offices until 2021?
Gale Brewer, president of the borough of Manhattan, acknowledges that the island known for its hustle and bustle and its power now faces a number of problems.
Some of them are a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic: Nearly all white-collar workers, including bankers, investors, and policyholders, have been fleeing home since March, emptying Manhattan’s business centers, leaving thousands of small businesses and restaurants. no customers.
Boris Tulchinskiy, a 26-year-old software engineer, misses Manhattan but hopes to “keep running from home” in neighboring New Jersey until July 2021.
If the more than 60 million tourists that make a stop in New York each year have left, so have New Yorkers, fleeing the city by the thousands.
At least 35,000 other people have left Manhattan, judging by post poll requests for the November presidential election, Brewer said.
Many businesses are now closed: Between 2017 and 2020, the number of vacant ads almost doubled, up 78%, he said.
The homeless are now more visual with the closure of many shelters for fitness reasons and the relocation of nearly 13,000 more people to live in less contagious situations in empty hotels in Manhattan.
Homicides and shootings – 47% and 166% more in August compared to last year – is one of the most striking facets of the crisis that plagues the city.
Even though it is still well below the rampant crime rates that plagued the city in the 1970s and 1980s, New York, which prides itself on being one of the safest cities in the world, has returned to the crime rate of 2012. , according to the New York Times. reported.
Trump to ”kill New York”
“I can’t tell you how many phone calls I get from people, especially in New York, who are literally concerned about the degradation of New York,” Governor Cuomo said Tuesday.
Even if the city shows signs of renewal, which come with the reopening of museums last August and restaurants welcoming in-house diners last September, its full recovery could take up to 3 years, Brewer said, yielding real estate estimates. agents.
Meanwhile, and within two months of one of the fiercest presidential contests in history, the crisis has in the middle of a dispute with Republican President Donald Trump.
The local New Yorker, who has appealed to himself in real estate, insists that crime in the Democratic stronghold is due to the incompetence of its leaders. On Tuesday, he again accused the mayor and the governor of “destroying” the city.
New York officials, in turn, have criticized Trump’s refusal to hand over billions in the federal emergency budget to the city to withstand the worst of the crisis.
“Trump is actively looking to kill New York, I think it’s psychological,” Cuomo said. “He’s looking to kill New York. “
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