“D E A R R A Ú L, Yesterday was Day 100 since we had our first confirmed COVID case in New York State. And with New York City entering Phase 1, the entire state is in the reopening process. At the outset, no one knew how long it would take us to control the virus. But we did understand that it all depended on our actions. I’m so proud of how New Yorkers responded. Together we bent the curve. When things are tough, New Yorkers are tougher. That’s the New York way.”
I subscribe to Governor Cuomo’s e-news sent day after day to guide us through the health crisis that now is becoming a city crisis with so much looting and boarded up stores.
During unstable times like these, we welcome strong upper guidance, emotional and financial assistance, moral reassurance. And we, as individuals, respond with strength and discipline (I call that structure). I would add imagination to the formula: utilizing our creative energies as if the world had entered a virginal state and we have to start from zero. But it’s not zero. It’s 2020, a perfect cypher that cannot be spoiled that easily by an ugly, multipod viral nuisance. We shall triumph.
— West Village, still, 6/9/2020