NEW YORK — New York Metropolis paid tribute Thursday to important employees who saved town going via the darkest days of the pandemic.
A brand new granite plaque in entrance of 250 Broadway commemorates the Hometown Heroes ticker-tape parade thrown for them final summer season.
As CBS2’s Kevin Rincon reported, there are plaques up and down the road marking ticker-tape parades for athletes, politicians, and pioneers in air and house. However this one is totally different as a result of it honors on a regular basis New Yorkers who stepped up in the course of the metropolis’s time of want.
“These have been the heroes of our metropolis,” Mayor Eric Adams stated in the course of the dedication.
The mayor stated the memorial is particular, whilst town continues to cope with the pandemic. And the timing is supposed to mirror that.
“Give me my flowers whereas I am right here,” stated Adams. “So it is a image that COVID just isn’t over, however that the soldiers are nonetheless right here.”
Postal employees, doormen, pharmacists, and sanitation workers have been amongst these on the dedication.
“Some folks had the privilege to work from home. A few of us did not. We simply needed to get up daily and return to work,” sanitation employee Fernando Blanco stated.
Throughout the peak of the pandemic, subways saved operating. Cherry Wiltshire has been a part of the MTA for greater than 20 years.
“I am glad for the popularity. I am glad that New York remains to be standing sturdy and we’re nonetheless working collectively as a group. And it is a group effort to make all the pieces work and to proceed to maneuver New York Metropolis the way in which we’ve to,” she stated.
The plaque is one in all greater than 200 alongside the Canyon of Heroes. This one commemorates on a regular basis New Yorkers who did their jobs regardless of the dangers in the course of the pandemic.