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No one wins a bet against NYC
For 400 years, New York has been hit by
one major crisis aft er another, and persisted.
Here’s what we’ve gone through in just
the last two decades:
• A massive, coordinated terrorist attack
on Sept. 11, 2001, that killed 3,000 people
As a city, we should have more faith in ourselves, and our ability to persevere. There’s no doubt we’ve been hit, but there’s also no doubt that we will
recover.
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Story: ‘She was a trailblazer’: Queens mourns loss
of former Borough President Claire Shulman
Summary: Former Queens Borough President Claire
Shulman died Sunday, Aug. 16, according to her
family. Shulman was the fi rst woman to be elected
as Queens borough president, a position she held
for 16 years, from 1986 until 2002, when she was
term-limited.
Reach: 4,460 (as of 8/16/20)
and caused our two tallest buildings
to collapse.
• A devastating economic crisis in 2008
that put two of the city’s biggest investment
fi rms — Bear Stearns and Lehman
Brothers — out of business and brought
our lucrative fi nancial sector to its knees.
• Superstorm Sandy in 2012, which
wiped out low-lying areas in Brooklyn,
Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island,
leaving our city with much to rebuild.
Th e current COVID-19 pandemic,
which killed thousands of our fellow citizens,
forced the closure of thousands of
businesses, disrupted our way of life and
wrought fi nancial devastation.
Aft er 9/11, the fi nancial crisis of 2008
and Superstorm Sandy, there were plenty
of skeptics who wondered if our city
would survive these crises. Each time,
we did.
Now, as the city slowly but steadily gets
back on its feet aft er COVID-19, we’ve
heard too many hot takes online about
how New York City is either fi nished or
not going to survive this pandemic.
Frankly, we’re left to roll our eyes and
laugh, because nobody has ever made
money betting on the demise of New
York City.
Are people leaving the city now? Yes.
But there will be newcomers to our city in
the years to come. Th ey’ve been coming
here over and over again, from across the
country and world, for four centuries. A
virus isn’t going to stop that for very long.
Does New York City have a crime problem?
Yes. Shootings are too frequent, and
property crimes are increasing. But we
remember “the bad old days” like the current
cynics do, and understand that the
city overcame them.
Have businesses taken a devastating
hit? Of course they have. And more must
be done to save those struggling to stay
afl oat. Yet our city’s history serves to reassure
that aft er previous economic panics
and depressions, the city lift ed itself from
the depths of economic despair and fl ourished
like never before.
As a city, we should have more faith in
ourselves, and our ability to persevere.
Th ere’s no doubt we’ve been hit, but there’s
also no doubt that we will recover.
We’ve done it before. Why can’t we do
it again?
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