Priorities.
Seriously? The city allows hundreds if not thousands to gather in the streets to paint massive political slogans on the pavement and agitate for weeks on end. Suddenly having a few dozen workers outside to install floodlights to celebrate one of the truly unifying events in New York City is the health risk? YGBKM: New York City’s annual light installation in honor of the victims of the Sept.11,2001, terrorist attacks has been canceled to help control the spread of the new coronavirus, organizers said Thursday. The two beams of vertical light have traditionally been set up in lower Manhattan in the days leading up to the anniversary of the attacks on the Twin Towers. But officials at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum said Thursday that they wouldn’t have the installation this year out of fear that the virus could spread among the workers needed to create the display. Instead of the installation, buildings across New York City will light their facades and spires in blue, according to Michael Frazier, a spokesman for the memorial and museum.
