After three bleak months during which the coronavirus pandemic mixed with protests, New York City will try to turn the page when it begins reopening Monday.
NEW YORK — The city that never sleeps had a curfew for much of last week. Famous stores were boarded up after days of unrest. The lights are out on Broadway theaters, and the subway no longer runs overnight.when it begins reopening Monday after getting hit first by the coronavirus, then an outpouring of rage over racism and police brutality.
Facing problems that range from creating social distancing on the subway to restoring public confidence in police, can the city regroup? Can New Yorkers? After months of relative isolation, “it’s going to be an adjustment being around so many people,” said the native New Yorker, who never thought she’d have to get used to crowds.
Yet Dr. Ian Lipkin, a Columbia University epidemiologist who had COVID-19 himself in March, is concerned the virus might spread at the protests followingThe virus’ toll — in lives, despair and exhaustion — weighs on him: “It’s very difficult to see how we recover.” Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, vowed Sunday to speed discipline for problem officers and shift some money from policing to social services. But he also emphasized Monday’s reopening as “a moment that every New Yorker should celebrate.”
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