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A gift to New York City from Barry Diller (IAC) and his wife, designer Diane von Furstenberg is “Little Island” a new fun Island of undulating park and walkways. Opening Tomorrow at Pier 55 on the Hudson. New York is getting more exciting with this amazing place designed by Thomas Heatherwick which has 132 super sized concrete tulips and an amphitheater. Arts and music programs including the Ballet and Philharmonic, food venues and playgrounds. Be Happy, enjoy life, get out and have fun again.

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Hooray!!! NYC is is beginning toward returning to normal. Restaurants are now open to full capacity bars open too. The temperature is going to reach the 80s, to my fellow former prisoners of the lockdown, if you were vaccinated, throw down that mask, grab a table or barstool at a rooftop or other hot spot and celebrate with me. FDR helped us emerge from the Great Depression by ending Prohibition. Throw off those lockdown shackles and be happy that we are allowed to be free, finally. Now return to work and be normal New Yorkers again.

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Sharing NYTimes scenarios for the post-pandemic NYC: “A Dystopic ‘Ghost Town’ ? Think of 1970s New York: buildings gutted by arson; subway cars plastered in graffiti; parks overrun with drug dealers; a city teetering on bankruptcy. Or ‘Party City’ As the city reopens, many party veterans are predicting a return to the carnal days of Studio 54 and Plato’s Retreat. The city’s bars, restaurants and sports stadiums are already filling, even months before Mayor de Blasio’s July 1 target date for a full reopening of the city. So maybe it’s time for New Yorkers to take heart, and let all those who fled to Florida worry about rising sea levels.” OK, make it what you want, I encourage everybody to return to work and have a positive perspective.

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