Mayor Bill de Blasio fizzled New Yorkers clinging to hopes for a summer dunk in the ocean, saying Thursday that there’s “no plan” to open city beaches like Coney Island, Brighton and Rockaway due to the coronavirus crisis after his executive budget also cut funding for public pools.
“Right now we do not have a plan to open the beaches, just like we do not have a plan to open the pools,” de Blasio said during a conference call with reporters. “It’s not safe.”
The mayor warned New Yorkers hoping to have a summer filled with typical fun-in-the-sun activities to “lower expectations — just for everyone’s sanity, lower expectations.”
Read more at THE NY POST.
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Beaches in Israel are currently full of tourists and chilonim. It’s only chareidim who have to heed their lockdown and curfew laws with police checking up on them every few house.
i hope it will be open in time for תשליך
Agree. There is no way my family can daven biyichidus over Rosh Hashanah. That would be a disaster.