While city beaches will remain open for visitors who want to walk along the sand this weekend, there will be no swimming permitted on Sunday, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday during a press conference on Tropical Storm Hermine preparations.
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“No one should assume that they can handle these kinds of riptides”.
Taking calls on his weekly “Ask the Mayor” radio show on WNYC, de Blasio told host Brian Lehrer that the United States’ “ridiculous” immigration policy isn’t the fault of the immigrants and that the country’s economy has come to rely on immigrant labor. As of 11 a.m., it was about 55 miles southwest of Savannah, Ga., according to the Weather Channel.
A tropical storm watch was extended Friday afternoon to include all New York City, Long Island and the CT coast as Hermine works its way up the Eastern Seaboard.
Riptides are strong currents that can quickly pull swimmers out to sea-and can exhaust swimmers who try to swim against the current back to shore.
The nasty weather is expected to kick off early Sunday and extend through Wednesday, de Blasio said.
Designed specifically for two local Republican Assembly candidates on the Upper East Side, the “Stop de Blasio line” allows for residents both politically affiliated and non-affiliated of the tony neighborhood, unhappy with the New York City Democratic mayor, to vote for the GOP candidates.
Power outages are also possible, and everyone is advised to keep cellphones charged. If winds worsen, there could be restrictions added to city bridges, de Blasio said.
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New York City under de Blasio has moved to the left on immigration issues, such as issuing city ID cards regardless of immigration status and barring the jailing of an arrestee based exclusively on the federal government’s claim that the person is in the country illegally.
