[cardcrimson]

You don't see a difference between:

"FAA says it is suspending flights to NYC-area and Philadelphia airports"

and 

"FAA briefly suspends all flights bound for NYC, Philadelphia airports."

Please post accurate news, not alarming misinformation. The stoppage was because some there was a coronavirus staffing issue at a facility. Lasted 30 minutes.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/ne...891750001/

One other thing to note: the greater effective NYC metropolitan area encompasses four states: I know people who commute daily into NYC from not only upstate NY, but also CT, NJ, and PA. Almost all of them do so via multiple means of highly crowded public transportation. Thus:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1241430843236790275?s=20[/tweet]

This likely means not only LGA and JFK, but also EWR (technically New Jersey) and also PHL, all of which are part of this same broader, highly interconnected transit system.

There are a ton of reasons to complain about Cuomo and (especially) de Blasio, but the reason that NY/NJ/CT/PA have been trying to march in lockstep is because these states are so interconnected that you need to treat them together. And it's why Cuomo resisted a shelter in place order for NYC only, because of how interconnected it is to those other areas.

In this sense, NYC and surrounding environs is much similar to large European metropolises than it is to almost anywhere else in the United States. I would not at all be surprised if NYC remains the epicenter for longer than any other part of the country for that reason.

Crim, I know I'm a spur in your heel these days because we don't share the same policy perspective, but what was the alarming misinformation? The story you linked to has the headline: "Coronavirus: FAA briefly suspends all flights bound for NYC, Philadelphia airports." That is precisely in line with what I posted, except that at the time I posted that tweet, the suspension was still ongoing, so they couldn't know how quickly it would be resolved. Am I missing something? 

Moreover, my reason for posting it was to show that many issues related to NYC are necessarily tri- and sometimes even quad-state issues.

[cardcrimson]

You don't see a difference between:

"FAA says it is suspending flights to NYC-area and Philadelphia airports"

and 

"FAA briefly suspends all flights bound for NYC, Philadelphia airports."

Please post accurate news, not alarming misinformation. The stoppage was because some there was a coronavirus staffing issue at a facility. Lasted 30 minutes.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/ne...891750001/

One other thing to note: the greater effective NYC metropolitan area encompasses four states: I know people who commute daily into NYC from not only upstate NY, but also CT, NJ, and PA. Almost all of them do so via multiple means of highly crowded public transportation. Thus:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1241430843236790275?s=20[/tweet]

This likely means not only LGA and JFK, but also EWR (technically New Jersey) and also PHL, all of which are part of this same broader, highly interconnected transit system.

There are a ton of reasons to complain about Cuomo and (especially) de Blasio, but the reason that NY/NJ/CT/PA have been trying to march in lockstep is because these states are so interconnected that you need to treat them together. And it's why Cuomo resisted a shelter in place order for NYC only, because of how interconnected it is to those other areas.

In this sense, NYC and surrounding environs is much similar to large European metropolises than it is to almost anywhere else in the United States. I would not at all be surprised if NYC remains the epicenter for longer than any other part of the country for that reason.

Crim, I know I'm a spur in your heel these days because we don't share the same policy perspective, but what was the alarming misinformation? The story you linked to has the headline: "Coronavirus: FAA briefly suspends all flights bound for NYC, Philadelphia airports." That is precisely in line with what I posted, except that at the time I posted that tweet, the suspension was still ongoing, so they couldn't know how quickly it would be resolved. Am I missing something? 

Moreover, my reason for posting it was to show that many issues related to NYC are necessarily tri- and sometimes even quad-state issues.