2/28/2023 0 Comments Wilde honda![]() ![]() “And that’s a surprisingly huge part of the Manhattan economy.”Īhmed worries about his own future, especially as winter approaches. “There are just going to be fewer of those chance encounters, where people pick up something to eat or drink or to bring home during their lunch hour, on their way to work and on the way home,” Bowles said. Office workers being slow to go back is “absolutely going to impact the bottom line for tons of … vendors, people that operate food trucks and so many more businesses that are really dependent on office workers providing a big chunk of their sales,” Bowles said. The city’s unemployment rate was 6.6% in August, significantly higher than the national rate of 3.7%. “Stores are operating with fewer people because there are fewer customers,” he said. If office workers are “not in the city, they’re not shopping in the city,” said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Among retail outlets, food and beverage stores have seen only about 66% of jobs come back, while clothing stores have seen about 62%, according to the New York City Independent Budget Office. “Office people are not back, but evenings and weekends, people are out,” said Singh, a cabbie for about 35 years.īut other sectors are suffering. ![]() While there are fewer commuters, he’s finding fares at other times. Some, like taxi driver Sukhdarshan Singh, have learned to adjust. Whether companies have some or all of their employees back on a given day, the spaces need to be cleaned and maintained, so his members are needed, he said. Denis Johnston, executive vice president of 32BJ Service Employees International Union, said almost all of the commercial office space cleaners represented by the union are back at work. On the worst, even getting to 10-15% can be a challenge.įor some dependent on office life, the partial return has been enough. On his best days, midweek, he sees maybe 60% of what he would have before the pandemic. “But there are still really large pockets, particularly around the central business districts where entrepreneurs and small businesses are struggling left and right … seeing a fraction of their previous customers,” Bowles said.Īhmed is among them. They’re people like Emad Ahmed, 58, who for more than two decades has worked in lower Manhattan, running his food cart on a plaza near Wall Street and the World Trade Center. They are the workers whose livelihoods can’t happen over an internet connection, who have depended on that serendipity of a customer being in the right place at the right time - the sudden impulse to buy a snack, pop into a store, throw some dollars into a street performer’s tip bucket. That’s meant hardship for New Yorkers who are part of the economy built around the commuting class. “We’re certainly entered a changed relationship between office workers and their offices,” said James Parrott, director of Economic and Fiscal Policies at the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School. But the onset of autumn has also made it clearer than ever that the recovery will be drawn out, and that some aspects of the city’s economic ecosystem could be changed for good. More workers did return to their offices, at least part time, as the summer ended, limited data suggests. The non-Jewish population is 95.2% Muslim, 3.5% Christian with the others unclassified by religion.NEW YORK (AP) - As kids returned to school last month, people watching New York City pull itself out of COVID-19’s shadow wondered whether workers who fled Manhattan’s office towers during the pandemic would finally return in a rush, too. The minority are Arab citizens of Israel living in Abu Ghosh, Beit Safafa and East Jerusalem, where Arab professionals have settled since the late 1970s, mainly for the provision of legal and other services to the local population. The majority of Arabs in the Jerusalem District are Palestinians, eligible to apply for citizenship under Israeli law, but either declining to apply or unsuccessful. Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem has not been recognized by the international community. A fifth (21%) of the Arabs in Israel live in the Jerusalem Municipality, which includes both East and West Jerusalem. ![]() The Jerusalem District has a land area of 652 km 2. The Jerusalem District ( Hebrew: מחוז ירושלים Arabic: منطقة القدس) is one of the six administrative districts of Israel. ![]()
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