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NYC Gaining One Leg Up Again on 12/14/23 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. While I have a few minutes here,
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  I just want to say, I just want to say, it looks like
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  New York City is coming back. Did you know? According to the New
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  York City Economic Development Corporation, there is a sixty four point four percent rate
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  of office visitation in Q two, up five point four percent points from the
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  prior quarter. It's a post pandemic record, and furthermore, it means things
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  are coming back now. The city reached fifty percent of its pre pandemic in
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  office levels for the first time in early June, according to Cranes. But
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  when you look at the numbers being crunched, it looks to me like things
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  are coming back. The city's office occupancy clocking at fifty one point four percent
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  for a seven day period ending November twenty ninth, up from two point up
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  two point four percent from the week prior. So we're getting some different levels
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  here. We're getting some different metrics, which is promising. It shows New
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  York City's coming back. But what will it take to get one hundred percent
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  everything? What will it take? I gotta know what's it going to take
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  to get us at one hundred percent level. Will it be a reduction in
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  crime, Will it be the media reporting good stories and about the cops?
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  Even will it be I don't know, just some damn good news. I
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  get Mayor Adams's frustration, but he's at twenty eight percent approval rating for a
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  reason. I hate to say that, but I get his frustration that the
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  media doesn't paint the best picture of New York. But when you cut budgets
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  of the NYPD, especially especially, that does scare people from coming back full
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  time. That does. But guess what, we can overcome that as a
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  city and as a state. We can overcome that. We can say,
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  hey, look at the numbers that we're getting, and let's build off that,
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  and then let's reduce the cuts. Let's bring back a better force that
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  can truly protect our city from even yes, emotionally diserb people. Let's fix
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  bail reform so that, yes, we can have people locked up who deserve
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  me locked up and and and not released day of or even moments after.
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  So I get where Mayor Adams is coming from. He is the city is
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  coming back. I saw it today. I saw it today, roller blanding.
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  I had to really breeze through as I was telling one of my radio
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  colleagues, breeze through traffic, foot traffic, that is because it was getting
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  crowded, and we love crowded. We need crowds. This economy is thirsting
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  for true rebound, it really is. But I want to see more courier
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  and knives kind of pictures with wreaths and tree and offices that people can actually
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  enjoy because they're back in the office, spending Christmas time and the holiday season,
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  back where they should be in New York City. That's what I want
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  to see. And I think you should two and I think you should two.
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  But if we're gonna keep reporting how bad it is, let's also acknowledge
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  how great it is that there is a comeback, a brew comeback afoot here
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  in New York, is there not. The approval rating is totally because of
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  this FBI situation, which nobody seems to understand might actually be retaliation for Adams
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  speaking out against Biden's lack of help. When it comes to the migrant crisis.
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  You have to put two and two together, people, You have to
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  put two and two together. You can't just disapprove of a mayor because of
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  the policy, and also because of the scandal when you don't even maybe recognize
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  that he has been advocating for support from the federal government for a long time
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  and the liaison from the White House. Biden couldn't even give his own time.
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  He had to put a liaison, and that liaison has failed. Also,
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  it's clear he's failed. Can we just say that? And so when
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  Adams tells the city, hey, we're kind of stuck with this and whatever,
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  that's not good. His defensiveness might rub people the wrong way and not
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  acknowledging the real issues here. But at the end of the day, it's
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  what we see and maybe what you see too. Email me Alex at alexanyc
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  dot com if you're a city resident, Are you seeing what I'm seeing?
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  Which was an uptick, especially on this Thursday, December fourteenth, an uptick
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  people coming from New Jersey on the Path train, people coming off the subways
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  in New York City to downtown Manhattan. That's what I saw. The crowds
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  keep building. The question is can we get to the point where Monday and
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  Friday, Monday and Friday have people here too. That's the next big test
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  that would put us over seventy percent. I believe now we get over seventy
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  percent, well we shoot off fireworks again like we did with like Governor Cuomo
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  did with the whole vaccination process. I hope not. I think that's a
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  little much, but it would be nice to see seventy percent again or more
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  back in the offices of New York City. It really would, It really
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  would. And so I just want to say, from my own perspective on
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  a rollerblande in New York, I saw people today, I had a weave
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  in and out of foot traffic, and that gives me hope this Christmas season.
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  And that's the reason why I forge along, and I wrote about this
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  on my word press. I forge along, and I'm uplifted to forge ahead
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  this Christmas and Honka season because yes, I've had a lot of loss in
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  this year alone, but those who have gone before us would want us to
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  forge ahead in their honor or for ourselves. And that's what we have to
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  remember when we get down, when they think of those who aren't with us
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  this holiday season thing that they would want us to keep going, to keep
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  forging ahead as God continues to give us the day to make it right for
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  the world and within our own lives, I wrote my Alex g andyc dot
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  com website. We have a lot of work to do to keep us from
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  the dumps. We have to get Israeli hostages released. We have to pray
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  Israel defeats Hamas this Honkas season. We have mouths to feed in New York,
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  coachs to donate, and so much more to do this Christmas season.
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  That that's what we should be focused on, not being down in the dumps
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  and sad all the time. Yes, we'll have our moments, but we
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  also have our big the big Apple to save this holiday season. I believe
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  we have to work hard, love each other harder, and trust that God
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  will put everything into place as it's supposed to be. For goodness sakes.
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  The Son of the Father, Jesus Christ's birth is being celebrated once again this
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  month on December twenty fifth. That should motivate us to work together, to
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  work hard in honor of those who have gone before us, and personally myself,
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  not worry about loss that lies ahead. Sure, I am terrified of
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  what lies ahead, but I also remember that Christ healed in the now,
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  in the now, and that's what we have to work about right now.
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  Be anxious for nothing and be excited that there are crowds of people again in
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  New York City. The only question is how do we keep it going into
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  twenty twenty four and beyond into the new year. And I think it's highlighting
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  great, great records being broken again in this great city of New York,
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  all of his visitation hitting sixty four point four percent of pre pandemic levels.
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  That's huge, That is huge, and I think we're gonna see a lot
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  more in the days to come. At least, we pray, so God
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  bless you this Christmas season, this holiday season, this season quans the season,
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  and may you too be uplifted to forge ahead in honor of those who
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  have gone before us and in honor of those who are working to save the
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  Big Apple, because we're all in this together. Have a great day on
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  the Alex Garrett Podcast Network.