Broadway sings New York’s blues as crime, costs slow post-COVID comeback
NY Post
The Trump verdict last Thursday overshadowed a far more disturbing portent for New York: yet another daytime attack in the heart of Times Square, the second in a month, this time a machete assault outside a McDonald’s at 45th and Broadway.
New York’s failure to control crime — regular crime, not Trump crime — is slowing its tourism recovery, as new statistics from Broadway’s theater industry show.
Like New York overall, Broadway is having a slow rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Just ahead of the Tony Awards in mid-June, the Broadway League has released annual stats for the playing year that ended last month.
Through May, annual attendance was 12.3 million people — nearly 17% below the 2018-19 level of 14.8 million. Revenue was down 16%, to $1.5 billion.
Though a few blockbuster shows — “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Hamilton” and “The Lion King” (still) — command nosebleed ticket prices of $200 and up, costs overall aren’t deterring visitors.
Travelers at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport faced a hellish travel weekend, with TSA wait lines reportedly lasting nearly three hours because of the partial government shutdown.
Imagine if Allied intelligence had located Adolf Hitler in late May 1944 and killed him before the Normandy invasion. Imagine that in the same hour, strikes eliminated Hitler’s designated successor, the head of the German Armed Forces High Command, the chief operational planner of the war effort, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, responsible for defending Western Europe, and the rest of Germany’s field marshals and senior commanders.
Rep. Kevin Kiley explained California’s voter ID during an appearance Thursday on “Straight Shooter with Stephen A,” on SiriusXM, prompting a stunned response from host Stephen A. Smith as the conversation turned to election integrity and federal reform.
A Rockland County mailman’s attack on a 4-year-old Jewish boy is not being treated as a hate crime because cops don’t believe it had anything to do with the tot’s religion, police told The Post on Sunday.
ICE officers will be deployed to airports to help clear the horrendous security lines for the TSA, which ran out of funding more than a month ago because of a Democrat shutdown, President Trump announced Sunday.
Gov. Hochul was fittingly ridiculed last week for urging wealthy New Yorkers who fled the state for Florida to return and bring their rich friends with them.
More than half of the NYPD’s Joint Terrorism Task Force cops can retire right now, along with thousands of sergeants, lieutenants, and captains, worrying officials about the future of terror and crime fighting in Gotham, The Post has learned.
President Trump on Saturday issued a blistering ultimatum to Iran, warning that it has 48 hours to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face US strikes that would “obliterate” its vital energy infrastructure.
Gov. Hochul was fittingly ridiculed last week for urging wealthy New Yorkers who fled the state for Florida to return and bring their rich friends with them.
More than half of the NYPD’s Joint Terrorism Task Force cops can retire right now, along with thousands of sergeants, lieutenants and captains, worrying officials about the future of terror and crime fighting in Gotham, The Post has learned.
President Trump on Saturday issued a blistering ultimatum to Iran, warning that it has 48 hours to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face US strikes that would “obliterate” its vital energy infrastructure.
Rep. Kevin Kiley explained California’s voter ID during an appearance Thursday on “Straight Shooter with Stephen A,” on SiriusXM, prompting a stunned response from host Stephen A. Smith as the conversation turned to election integrity and federal reform.
New Yorkers instinctively avoid raving street-corner lunatics. They don’t know if the psycho might suddenly come at them with a knife, so they cross to the other side to be safe.