Defeat Delta: Mayor de Blasio Announces Crucial to NYC Vaccination Mandate Will Start out Tomorrow, August 1

August 16, 2021

Enforcement will start off on September 13

NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio nowadays announced the Crucial to NYC vaccination mandate for indoor eating, leisure and fitness will start tomorrow, August 17. Enforcement will commence, with a multi-agency coalition, on September 13. Read through the Executive Purchase here.

“New York Metropolis has a single mission: defeat the delta variant and develop a recovery for all of us,” reported Mayor Monthly bill de Blasio. “The Important to NYC sends a effective concept that vaccination will unlock our city’s prospective, and we’ll end at absolutely nothing to save life and continue to keep New Yorkers protected.”

“The Crucial to NYC will unlock many of our preferred activities,” stated Wellness Commissioner Dr. Dave A. Chokshi. “Vaccination helps make every single activity safer and this is a common-sense precaution to continue to keep patrons of gyms, dining places and indoor amusement wholesome.”

The City will carry out an aggressive outreach and schooling campaign, like a $10 million multi-system compensated media marketing campaign. This campaign willinclude things like radio, Tv set, electronic, social, subway stay boards. Around 600 canvassers will be going doorway to door for influenced companies with the aim of achieving just about every zip code in the city in the next 3 weeks.

Vital to NYC afflicted firms include:

Indoor enjoyment

  • Motion picture theaters
  • Tunes and live performance venues
  • Museums & galleries
  • Aquariums & zoos
  • Professional sporting activities arenas
  • Indoor stadiums
  • Convention facilities
  • Exhibition halls
  • Undertaking
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Transcript: Mayor de Blasio Holds Media Availability

August 2, 2021

Video available at: https://youtu.be/gXsPKSyxzdE

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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A Restoration for All of Us: Mayor de Blasio Announces “NYC Homecoming 7 days” Concert events Coming to all Fiv

July 22, 2021

NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio nowadays introduced that the Metropolis of New York will host live shows in every of the five boroughs—between August 14th to 22nd—as aspect of NYC Homecoming Week and to celebrate the Summertime of New York City.

The live shows will be held: 

  • Monday, August 16th at Orchard Beach front in The Bronx
  • Tuesday, August 17th at Richmond County Lender Park in Staten Island
  • Thursday, August 19th at Brooklyn Military Terminal in Brooklyn
  • Friday, August 20th at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens
  • Saturday, August 21st at The Excellent Lawn, Central Park in Manhattan 

“Joining just one of the biggest Central Park concert events in heritage will be momentous concerts in every borough showcasing renowned artists who have built New York City happy,” claimed Mayor Monthly bill de Blasio. “It’s time to rejoice our town, assist our local companies, and have an unbelievable Summer months of New York Metropolis.”

“Just like Hip Hop songs triumphantly emerged initially from the tumultuous ’70s, the Universal Hip Hop Museum is happy to deliver a component of the NYC Homecoming celebration,” claimed Rocky Bucano, Executive Director and President, Universal Hip Hop Museum. “Hip Hop society displays the mosaic that will make NYC, with its sound coming from all genres and spanning many communities. Doing work in partnership with the Metropolis and many others, this is our adore letter to new music enthusiasts from all over NYC.”

The full line-up of artists who will conduct at

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Mayor de Blasio Unveils Plan to Help save and Reimagine the BQE

August 4, 2021

NEW YORK— Mayor Monthly bill de Blasio and Division of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Hank Gutman these days unveiled a thorough approach to lengthen the lifetime of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) cantilever for at least another 20 several years, though reimagining the corridor for a very long-time period long term with a lot less reliance on big, diesel vehicles. The four-component prepare focuses on preserving the composition executing quick and ongoing maintenance increasing checking and enforcement and creating a extended-time period, local community-based eyesight for the whole corridor.

“We have the know-how, the suggestions, and the know-how to conserve the BQE, and we’re fired up to execute this program. But which is just the commence,” explained Mayor Invoice de Blasio. “New York Town can do extra than patch up a highway in have to have of restore – we can use this possibility to rethink how persons, goods, and companies shift about our town. I glance forward to primary that approach, and conclusions fresh techniques to use this resource to establish a extensive-term restoration for all of us.”

“Repairing and restoring the BQE usually takes creative imagination, ingenuity, and really hard perform, and I’m proud to lay out a prepare that depends on just that,” stated Deputy Mayor for Functions Laura Anglin. “This plan will maintain an crucial section of our city’s infrastructure for decades to arrive, and I glimpse forward to imagining creatively about its long term.”

“This strategy is built to handle latest

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N.Y.C. Mayor Pledges New Mask Guidance on Monday

Mr. de Blasio announced on Monday that a lot more than 300,000 metropolis employees would have to be vaccinated or post to weekly screening, and he has known as on personal employers to implement vaccine mandates. The mayor also introduced $100 payments for all those who get vaccinated at a city-operate web page.

New York’s governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, explained on Wednesday that tens of thousands of condition employees would be essential to be vaccinated or experience weekly testing. Health care employees at condition operate hospitals who are “patient-facing” will be needed to be vaccinated and will not have the choice of tests. And on Thursday, President Biden announced new specifications for federal workers to be vaccinated or face screening, and urged community and state governments to offer you $100 to everyone keen to get a shot voluntarily.

The modifications come as New York Metropolis faces a troubling, Delta-pushed rise in coronavirus conditions. The normal quantity of new conditions has quadrupled to 1,000 for every day considering that July.

Hospitals are not becoming overrun as they had been in the city at the peak at the surge. Most of all those staying hospitalized are the unvaccinated.

Mr. de Blasio also urged metropolis citizens to take inventory of the rising range of places necessitating vaccinations. He praised the decision by Danny Meyer, the main executive of Union Square Hospitality Team, which

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Mayor de Blasio and Rocky Bucano Announce “It’s Time for Hip Hop in NYC” Free Concerts to be Held Du

July 29, 2021

Concerts to air exclusively on Twitch channel Behind The Rhyme

Concerts will include live graffiti, temporary art installations produced with Thrive Collective

It's Time for Hip Hop in NYC - Summer 2021 - Free Concert Series

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NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio and Universal Hip Hop Museum (UHHM) Executive Director and President Rocky Bucano today announced with Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and New York State Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie the dynamic lineup of Hip Hop, Latin freestyle, dance, freestyle, techno, and funk artists set to perform at the “It’s Time for Hip Hop in NYC” concerts to be held at outdoor venues in The Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens.

As a celebration of New York City’s comeback during NYC Homecoming Week, between August 14th to 22nd, all tickets for “It’s Time for Hip Hop in NYC” concerts – produced by New York City, the Universal Hip Hop Museum, and IDEKO – will be available for free.

“You don’t want to miss the local, legendary talent performing throughout NYC Homecoming Week,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “As we celebrate this Summer of New York City, we’re proud to partner with Rocky Bucano and the Universal Hip Hop Museum to bring these momentous concerts to our boroughs, free of charge. And if you get a ticket, you can go as long you have proof of your first dose of an approved COVID vaccine.”

“Hip Hop comes home to celebrate NYC Homecoming Week!” said Rocky Bucano, Executive Director and President

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