You can't fix stupid! De Blasio claims COVID-19 vaccine will cure NYC shooting epidemic https://nypost.com/2020/09/02/de-blasio-claims-covid-19-vaccine-will-cure-nyc-shooting-epidemic/ With gun violence hitting fever pitch in the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio claimed Wednesday that a coronavirus vaccine would somehow cure the shooting epidemic. “We are dealing with a challenge we’ve never seen in the city. It is, thank God, temporary … there will be a vaccine, there will be a turnaround,” de Blasio said when asked at his daily press conference about the surging gunplay. The NYPD reported Wednesday that shootings have spiked by 151 incidents in August, from 91 to 242, which is a 161 percent increase from the same time last year. For the past 13 weeks, Gotham has been marred by gun violence with 375 more shootings and 499 more victims compared to the same time last year as of Monday. On Sunday, the city surpassed 1,000 shootings for the first time since 2015, with four more months remaining in the year. Both Hizzoner and Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, who did not appear with the mayor, pointed to the increase in gun arrests over the last two weeks as a positive sign. At the end of August, cops made up some ground in firearms collars after two months of weekly decline, logging 359 arrests — two more than last year. “Despite all the continuing challenges, our NYPD officers are undaunted,” Shea said. For the year, firearms arrests remain down roughly 5.7 percent compared to last year, NYPD data shows. Overall in 2020, police have made nearly 60,000 fewer arrests or about 39 percent of last 2019’s collars year to date. In addition, murders and burglaries were both up compared to August of last year, according to the data — with murders rising from 36 last August to 56 this August, and burglaries increasing from 1,076 to 1,310. Overall, the major seven felonies increase slightly, .7 percent, but year-to-date, crime remains down 2.1 percent. The claim comes as the de Blasio administration and NYPD top brass offer few details publicly on how the department plans to curb the surge in gun violence after previously pointing fingers. NYPD officials said Tuesday they were rejiggering overtime caps to get more cops on the street through Labor Day. Claims that the slowed courts, coronavirus releases and bail reform were at the center of a significant shooting increase have been debunked by The Post.
Ex-New York Gov. Pataki rips de Blasio on coronavirus response, governance: ‘The mayor is a catastrophe’ Pataki suggested Gov. Cuomo should interfere https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ex...esponse-governance-the-mayor-is-a-catastrophe Republicans and Democrats agree that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has been a disaster in his response to the coronavirus pandemic and beyond, former New York Gov. George Pataki told “Your World with Neil Cavuto.” “The mayor is a catastrophe,” he said. “And I think you have bipartisan agreement, even in this era where Republicans and Democrats don't agree on anything. I think in New York, they agree de Blasio has been a catastrophe.” Pataki argued that if he were still governor, he wouldn’t be able to sit back and observe de Blasio sending the city “down the tubes” and suggested Gov. Cuomo should interfere. Right now, he said, New York’s greatest emergency is managing the mentally ill homeless population that are at fault for provoking violence in the streets. “It is an emergency,” he said. “I would use the governor's emergency power to remove that from the mayor, who obviously can't deal with that issue appropriately and put in place the appropriate steps. We have an awful mayor in New York City, but that's not an excuse. When you're a leader, you want to solve the problems and look at whatever levers of power you have to solve the problem.” Pataki said it’s sad to see the “mess” New York has turned into under the coronavirus pandemic and poor leadership, after his 12 years of trying to get the state back on the “right track.” And even though New Yorkers, including President Trump, are fleeing to lower-tax states like Florida, Pataki said he believes New York will eventually bounce back to the norm. “It's just a question of will it come back quickly? Or will it be a matter of many, many years?” he said.
"there will be a vaccine, there will be a turnaround" Ok, You should actually read past headlines and think just a bit.
Democrat releases 15-second ad calling de Blasio 'worst mayor in the history of New York City' https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...lling-de-blasio-worst-mayor-in-history-of-new New York Rep. Max Rose castigated Bill de Blasio, a fellow Democrat, as the worst mayor in New York City history in a seconds-long ad released Wednesday. "Bill de Blasio is the worst mayor in the history of New York City," the Staten Island Democrat says in the 15-second spot. "That's it, guys," he adds after a brief pause. "That’s the whole ad." A spokesman for de Blasio fired back on Twitter, questioning whether Rose "prefers Fernando Wood," a reference to the city's 1850s-era mayor who wished for the state to secede during the Civil War. Rose was one of several Democrats in 2018 to flip a GOP-held seat, defeating former Rep. Dan Donovan (R-N.Y.) by just under 4 points. He is running for reelection this year against State Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis. The district is historically the most electorally conservative in New York City. The Cook Political Report rates it as a toss-up in the 2020 election. Rose has targeted the mayor before for criticism, accusing him of “actively trying to kill” the city’s restaurant industry by banning indoor dining. The first-term congressman told Fox News that the city’s restaurants “are on life support,” adding, "Come the fall when the temperature starts to go down, if this is not fixed, you will see the majority of our restaurants go out of business." "This is as serious and as personal as it gets. When you open a restaurant, it’s not a 9-to-5. That’s your life, and your workers are your family," Rose said. "You’ve invested everything you have in that. And now what we have in New York City with this mayor is he’s actively trying to kill them."
And now Cuomo on the wires saying they need to tax the wealthy to pay for the COVID shutdown. Go get em, Andy! Send more of your wealthy down here to Florida!
150 Big Businesses Warn Mayor of ‘Widespread Anxiety’ Over N.Y.C.’s Future Leaders of companies like Goldman Sachs and JetBlue implored Mayor Bill de Blasio to take more decisive action to halt the city’s decline. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/nyregion/business-leaders-nyc-de-blasio.html More than 150 powerful business leaders in New York City joined together on Thursday to warn Mayor Bill de Blasio that he needed to take more decisive action to address crime and other quality-of-life issues that they said were jeopardizing the city’s economic recovery. Chief executives of companies like Goldman Sachs, Vornado Realty Trust and JetBlue sent a letter to the mayor portraying a bleak assessment of life in New York City during the pandemic, and suggesting a vote of no confidence in the mayor’s ability to correct it. The letter asserted that there was “widespread anxiety over public safety, cleanliness and other quality of life issues that are contributing to deteriorating conditions in commercial districts and neighborhoods across the five boroughs.” And if the mayor did not address those issues, the business leaders warned that people who have left the city would be slow to return because of legitimate concerns over “security and the livability of our communities.” The letter, which was sent nearly six months after the outbreak forced New York City into a lockdown, represented something of a watershed moment in the fraught relationship between the business community and Mr. de Blasio, a progressive Democrat elected in 2013 who has long portrayed himself as a champion of the city’s poor and working class. Business leaders had largely refrained from criticizing the mayor and his administration as they fought the coronavirus outbreak. But schools are about to reopen, and companies are following suit: JPMorgan Chase wants some of its senior officialsto returnto the office starting Sept. 21. And as that transition continued, the executives grew anxious about what they saw as the city’s deterioration. They acknowledged the city’s success in containing the coronavirus, but highlighted that “unprecedented numbers of New Yorkers are unemployed, facing homelessness, or otherwise at risk.” They offered to help and advise the mayor on restoring essential services. Mr. de Blasio responded in a conciliatory tone, urging business leaders to work with him and arguing that the city needed federal funding and new borrowing capacity. “We need these leaders to join the fight to move the city forward,” the mayor said on Twitter. The letter reflected a divide in how people perceive the effects of the outbreak, which has killed more than 20,000 city residents and left hundreds of thousands unemployed. While some New Yorkers have departed for the suburbs or to vacation homes, many who have remained have taken issue with the portrayals of a city abandoned and overrun by disorder. Indeed, signs of normalcy have returned, from outdoor dining to socially distanced gatherings at parks. By the end of the month, in-person education at public schools and indoor dining will return. The main reason the city has been able to start reopening is that the infection rate has remained low, with only about 1 percent of virus tests coming back positive. “We’re grateful for the business community’s input, and we’ll continue partnering with them to rebuild a fairer, better city,” Bill Neidhardt, a spokesman for Mr. de Blasio, said in a statement. “Let’s be clear: We want to restore these services and save jobs, and the most direct way to do that is with long-term borrowing and a federal stimulus. We ask these leaders to join in this fight because the stakes couldn’t be higher.” The de Blasio administration has had to make cuts to city services in an effort to close a two-year, $9 billion budget gap. In the letter, the business leaders offered no specific solutions for how he might balance the budget. Kathryn Wylde, the president of the Partnership for New York City, said in an interview that the letter had been in the works for about a month, as many of the executives’ companies were preparing to have some workers return to the office. “All these employers are committed to the city, they want to see economic recovery, but they’re getting pushback from their employees about, will the city be safe, will the city be clean,” Ms. Wylde said.
De Blasio continues his relentless pursuit of turning NYC into a complete shi@thole... De Blasio abruptly boots over 100 disabled people from Midtown shelter https://nypost.com/2020/09/10/de-blasio-boots-over-100-disabled-people-from-nyc-shelter/ With little warning, City Hall moved more than a hundred disabled New Yorkers out of their Midtown shelter to make way for the homeless who were booted by Mayor Bill de Blasio from an Upper West Side hotel. Frustrated and fearful residents of the Harmonia, a former hotel on East 31st Street, lined the streets with their belongings Thursday as they awaited their sudden transfer to other shelters in the Big Apple’s sprawling system — with some saying they are being moved to Brooklyn and Queens. “We’ve been living here for two years. We’ve accumulated so much stuff and they want to just bring one bag. I feel mad,” said Moises Oliveras, 44, who suffers from a host of medical issues and lived at the shelter with his wife, Maria. “They use us like chess pieces. Moving us around like that.” The Oliverases only found out Wednesday that they were being moved, just a day after City Hall quietly acknowledged its decision to stop housing the homeless in the Lucerne Hotel. “We’re human beings, man. And they treated us like garbage,” Oliveras added. An undated fact sheet posted online reports that more than 170 families call the Harmonia home, though it’s unclear how many lived in the facility as of Thursday. The Post observed dozens of residents standing outside near the facility preparing to move. “It’s unfair. It’s last notice. Everyone is running around. We were just told this yesterday,” said Lisa Feliciano, 49, a childcare provider who has lived at the shelter for eight months with her daughter. “My daughter suffers from depression. This isn’t helping. She’s going to college! She’s supposed to take a class at 6 tonight.” The clear-out happened despite de Blasio telling reporters three different times during his daily press briefing Thursday that there was plenty of space in the shelter system to accommodate those who had been living in the Lucerne Hotel on West 79th Street. “There was a lot more space in our traditional shelters,” Hizzoner said. “We had space available in the places where services are provided, where we expect to be able to do the best to support homeless folks. We never intended to be in hotels on a long-term basis.” The Department of Homeless Services relocated 10,000 New Yorkers from congregate shelters where social distancing is virtually impossible to hotel rooms as part of an emergency $78 million effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. That total included the nearly 300 recovering addicts moved to the Lucerne. Complaints quickly followed as many in the posh neighborhood reported they spotted their new neighbors harassing pedestrians, panhandling, and even relapsing — using drugs, and sometimes overdosing — in public. One group hired powerhouse attorney Randy Mastro, a former top aide to then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to make its case to City Hall. Crime statistics showed jumps in reported robberies and burglaries in the neighborhood, though violent crime indicators remained flat or declined. Still, with pressure mounting, de Blasio quietly toured the site and explained his decision to close it down Wednesday as a response to the conditions that he described as “not acceptable.” City Hall’s about-face earned scorn of its own from Upper West Side politicians and residents, who argued that de Blasio folded and the campaign against the shelter was an affront to the famously liberal neighborhood’s values. “We are deeply disturbed that the Mayor is caving to political pressure to move homeless New Yorkers out of temporary pandemic shelter at the Lucerne Hotel in a way that will displace 150 adult families living at the Harmonia, none of whom deserve to get caught up in this politicized process,” read the statement co-signed by a slew of prominent Manhattan Democrats, including Borough President Gale Brewer, powerful state Sen. Liz Krueger and longtime Assemblyman Dick Gottfried. And that’s not the last of the headaches. The Legal Aid Society threatened to sue City Hall on Thursday over the move. “Mayor Bill de Blasio’s pathetic and shortsighted surrender to Upper West Side NIMBYism has unsurprisingly disrupted the lives of other vulnerable New Yorkers at various shelters around New York City, all in the midst of a public health crisis,” said the group’s top lawyer, Judith Goldiner. The Department of Homeless Services defended the move in a statement late Thursday. “We are coordinating closely with our provider partners, who are doing extraordinary work under challenging circumstances,” said spokesman Isaac McGinn. “No one will be turned out into the streets under any circumstance.”
When extreme liberals vote for extreme liberal Democrat mayors and governors, they made their bed and can now sleep on it. This is what New York voters voted for so, hard to feel sorry for them. Life is about choices and if you make the wrong choices, there are consequences. Some people need to learn the hard way. Not to worry, the extreme liberal, filthy rich Democrats, just moved to the Hamptons and New Jersey. They will still get the same extreme liberal policies they so wanted to and voted for. Enjoy.