Transcript: Mayor de Blasio Holds Media Availability

August 2, 2021

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Mayor Bill de Blasio: Good morning, everyone. So, every day we focus on recovery. Every day we focus on bringing New York City back. I’ve been out and around these last weeks, you see so much more activity, thank God. Jobs coming back, livelihoods coming back, businesses coming back. We are going to keep focusing on the recovery, we’ve got big challenges, we’re going to talk about them in the next few minutes. We’ve got big challenges, big things we have to address, but the recovery keeps moving forward and we’re going to keep telling people and showing people that New York City is coming back strong. And one of the most important ways we’re going to do that is with Homecoming Week, it is going to be absolutely amazing, memorable, unforgettable. August 14th through 22nd, all five boroughs, concerts, free movie screenings, cultural events, public art, you name it, amazing. Once-in-a-lifetime events, we went over the concerts in all five boroughs, the headliners amazing KRS-One in the Bronx, Raekwon and Ghostface Killah on Staten Island, Big Daddy Kane, and Desiigner in Brooklyn, George Clinton, and the P-Funk All-Stars in Queens, legends. Of course, one of the greatest of all time, Bruce Springsteen and so many other greats in Central Park. This is going to be amazing, and it’s going to be a great sign of New York City’s rebirth. 

One update. The Staten Island concert is getting a lot of attention and

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