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Dozens shot over holiday weekend as gun violence continues to climb BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
Public service reminder at Fifth Ave. and 88th Street. Photo: Michael Oreskes
THE CORONAVIRUS TIGHTROPE
PUBLIC HEALTH
NYC’s room for error is narrowing, just as the pressure to ease up is growing BY MICHAEL ORESKES
New York is walking a perilous tightrope right now, balancing the restart of the economy – and of social contact – with the risk of plunging back onto the pandemic. Governor Andrew Cuomo
Tensions are mounting between activists calling for police reform and NYPD unions and advocates after a holiday weekend of particularly harrowing gun violence that saw at least nine people killed and 54 others injured across New York City. The violence has exacerbated an existing sense of anxiety and disorder in the
city amid the coronavirus pandemic, weeks of unending blasts from fireworks, sizzling summer heat, and ongoing protests against police brutality, which have culminated in the Occupy City Hall encampment. At a press conference Monday morning, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he believed the shootings were the result of “dislocation” caused by the coronavirus. He added that the violence is “very worrisome” and pointed to the court system not being fully open as a reason why there is a delay in dealing with these cases. Police Commissioner Der-
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Very concerned about huge increase in shootings in Upper Manhattan ... Work needed on all fronts; much understandable frustration, tension & fear for life.” Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, on Twitter mot Shea told NY1 in an interview that the large number recent releases from Rikers is the source of the increase in shootings. Precision policing and neighborhood police will hold the perpetrators to ac-
COVID REDUX After a March bout with the virus, a second hospitalization came in June – and felt more serious than the initial infection. A cautionary tale by a “returnee”. p. 2
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NEW FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Restaurants on the move, an energetic entrepreneur - and TV troubles. p. 6
SUBURB ENVY
A college-aged New Yorker reflects on his love for the city in the wake of the coronavirus. p. 6
At City Hall on Monday, July 6, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he believed shootings were result of “dislocation” caused by the coronavirus. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office
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and Mayor Bill de Blasio were searching for that balance when they allowed the city to proceed to Phase Three of reopening, but without indoor drinking and dining. The governor said continued discipline was crucial because “dark clouds” were gathering. He cited both the way some New Yorkers seemed to be ignoring mandates for masks and distancing even as the case counts surge in other states.
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WEEK OF JULY
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