“I don’t know if it’s ever going to be like it was.' New York City gradually began reopening Monday in a turning point in the three-month-long pandemic crisis and an important test of the city’s discipline.
Owners of smaller shops were eager to reopen, even if they didn’t expect much business.
Mayor Bill de Blasio welcomed the reopenings as evidence of how “strong and resilient” New York is. But he also warned the city against letting its guard down and jeopardizing its hard-won progress against the virus: “Let’s hold onto it. Let’s build on it.” More than 21,000 deaths in New York City have been blamed on COVID-19, or roughly 1 in 5 of the more than 110,000 people who have died of the scourge across the U.S.
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