Today, we made the painful decision to suspend classes in all NYC public schools, beginning tomorrow March 16. We’re going to begin remote digital learning on Monday March 23, and we’ll do everything in our power to help our kids through this.
We know hundreds of thousands of kids depend on our schools for their meals. We’ll have grab and go breakfast and lunch available at all school buildings starting tomorrow.
The workers on the frontlines of this crisis are counting on all of us. We need health care workers, transit workers and first responders at their posts, and so we need to look after their children.
We’ll begin providing supervision for those workers’ children starting Monday March 23. But for this coming week, we need your help New York.
If you have a family member, a friend or a neighbor who is a health care worker, transit worker or first responder, step up and offer to help them with childcare.
As of today, we are also closing our senior centers and converting them into feeding centers where our seniors can pick up meals. We don’t do any of this lightly, but we do it to protect our most vulnerable.
We need to treat this like wartime— and we have a simple mission: protect the people most vulnerable and protect our health care system.
Everyone knows someone at risk. We all know someone working on the front lines in hospitals and clinics. Everything we're doing as a city we do for them.
Right now, we have 329 cases of COVID-19 in New York City. We have lost 5 New Yorkers. We know both of these numbers are going to grow substantially.
This crisis will last months and it will get worse before it gets better.
But it will get better.
From September 11th to the financial crisis, the world has always looked to New York City to respond and to lead.
And we always do.
It's time to show that to the world again.
But it will get better.
From September 11th to the financial crisis, the world has always looked to New York City to respond and to lead.
And we always do.
It's time to show that to the world again.
