[ April 19, 2024 ]
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De Blasio: NYC beaches likely closed for summer due to coronavirus
By Julia Marsh and Natalie Musumeci, April 16, 2020:
You can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach … just don’t expect to get anywhere near the surf this summer, Mayor Bill de Blasio warned Thursday.
Story continues below advertisementThe mayor fizzled New Yorkers clinging to hopes for a summer dunk in the ocean, saying Thursday that there’s “no plan” to open city beaches like Coney Island, Brighton and Rockaway due to the coronavirus crisis after his executive budget also cut funding for public pools.
“Right now we do not have a plan to open the beaches, just like we do not have a plan to open the pools,” de Blasio said during a conference call with reporters. “It’s not safe.”
According to de Blasio’s slashed executive budget for the fiscal year 2021, which was released Thursday, all outdoor city pools will be shuttered for the 2020 season due to coronavirus, saving the city $12 million.
The mayor warned New Yorkers hoping to have a summer filled with typical fun-in-the-sun activities to “lower expectations — just for everyone’s sanity, lower expectations.”
As city hospital admissions for suspected COVID-19 increased Thursday along with a jump in the number of suspected coronavirus patients in ICUs, de Blasio warned New Yorkers not to anticipate traditional summer-in-the-city activities.
“Right now I don’t see a scenario anytime soon,” de Blasio said, adding, “Imagine Coney Island in the middle of summer, hundreds of thousands of people packed tightly together — I don’t see that happening any time soon.”
The mayor continued, “The notion of having lifeguards and people coming to the beach like normal, we don’t have that in our sights yet.”
De Blasio said he would have to see the number of hospitalizations and those testing positive for the bug decline in order “to talk about some loosening of restrictions, and they have not been moving yet.”
“Every one of use would love to have our summer or some part of our summer, but keep expectations low for now,” de Blasio warned.
“We’re at a point right now, middle of April, where we are practicing intense social distancing, everyone’s being very careful,” the mayor said. “To go from that to mass gatherings of thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, that’s a big jump.”
However, de Blasio said, “Obviously you could have a situation where people could go to the beach to walk along the beach, but not in large numbers any time soon.”
Manning the beaches with lifeguards, the mayor explained, would “endanger people.”
But the mayor gave a glimmer of hope on the beachfront saying, “If things evolve we’ll reassess.”
“I can’t project it now, because it wouldn’t be safe to project it now,” said de Blasio.
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14 Comments
4 years ago
I wonder where Mayor Bill will be spending his lazy hazy days of summer? The Hamptons?
4 years ago
After a few million NYC residents have been shut in their tiny apartments for over four months, this mindless decision should really cut down on domestic violence.
4 years ago
Reply to
Worsethanitlooks
Pregnancies will go up too but with infanticide being legal, that isn’t a big problem there. Just make sure Franklin Graham’s Samaritan Purse people are shunned trying to help them for free!
4 years ago
DeBlazio is going to drag this out with the hope the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT will keep paying people to stay home. Tourist revenue will go down, businesses will go bankrupt, the suicide rate will go up as well as illegal drug use, alcoholics and crime will go up. DeBlaizio is a Marxist that will not let this opportunity get by him.
4 years ago
WHAT COULD HAPPEN IF ALL LEAVE THE HOMES TOGETHER – NO ARMY AND NO POLICE WILL BE ABLE TO STOP MILLIONS OF PEOPLE – YOU WILL SEE THAT NOTHING HAPPENS !
4 years ago
“lower expectations — just for everyone’s sanity, lower expectations.” Unbelievable! These self-anointed “elites” don’t even think of their citizens as human beings with real needs. Yet I can tell you they leave tyrannical Democrat strongholds, move to the South, and vote for the same kind of a..holes all over again in my home.
4 years ago
People don’t catch viruses outdoors like they do indoors. This is stupid!
4 years ago
NAZI WARREN WILLHELM dba Bill deBlasio MUST be sued in Federal Court for over reaching, attempting to over throw the govt., the Constitution, espionage, sedition, treason. WW is blight, a cancer on NYC & the world. WW, AOC, Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Hillary, Obama, et al. should face the guillotine – so the good times roll again.
4 years ago
de Blasio DOES NOT HAVE THAT AUTHORITY and is in a state of Open Insurrection.
Title 18, sections 241, 242, & 245
Right to Resist Unlawful Arrest ‘ https://constitution.org/uslaw/defunlaw.htm
4 years ago
D-Day 2020. Time to take back our beaches, parks and property in force..
4 years ago
Getting or keeping the coronavirus under control is of course immaterial.
Which planet did you say you were on?
4 years ago
De Blasioshit will bring protest. Where else are people going to go. Remember It’s outdoors.
4 years ago
“lower expectations — just for everyone’s sanity, lower expectations.”
And that’s the point.
People need recreational facilities such as beaches OPEN otherwise people who live/are trapped in NYC are going to go completely berserk and insane.
So keep the beaches closed and New York will have one or more L.A. scale riots to deal with.
4 years ago
Soooo…if the numbers are not declining, please explain how the lock down is working? Some epidemiologists are saying the lock downs are exacerbating the problem. People need exercise, fresh air, and sunshine. Keeping people locked up, inside, in confined environments is the worst thing you can do. Makes you wonder if he is intentionally trying to kill people.
