NEW YORK, Aug 21 ― Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and Paul Simon are set to headline a massive Central Park concert today meant to signal New York City’s “homecoming” in the wake of the pandemic’s worst devastation there. But a hurricane heading towards the US east coast along with a...
NEW YORK, Aug 21 ― Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and Paul Simon are set to headline a massive Central Park concert today meant to signal New York City’s “homecoming” in the wake of the pandemic’s worst devastation there.
Speaking on local radio yesterday Mayor Bill de Blasio said the celebration was planned “to really tell people in New York City was back, to tell the whole world.”De Blasio said the concert was aimed as a marker of recovery. Some 68 per cent of adult New Yorkers are fully vaccinated, though cases have ticked up recently to more than 1,850 a day, a 19 per cent increase in two weeks.
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