After Mayor de Blasio said March 17 that he believed a decision on whether to move the city to shelter-in-place status—confining residents to their homes with some flexibility to buy food, walk pets and lightly exercise—needed to be made within the next 48 hours, it took Governor Cuomo less than 24 to shoot it down the idea as impractical, notwithstanding its implementation recently in the San Francisco Bay area.
But even after Mr. Cuomo—who noted that making such a declaration was beyond the Mayor's authority—seemed to have the final say, Mr. de Blasio plugged away, although he canceled a teleconference with the interested media in favor of three interviews with NY1, CNN and WCBS-radio.
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