Mayor de Blasio says he plans to ‘fully reopen’ NYC on July 1

New York City will be “fully open” on July 1 — nearly a year-and-a-half after the COVID-19 shutdown, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday morning.

“We are ready for stores to open, for businesses to open, offices, theaters, full-strength,” Hizzoner said in an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

The Big Apple is finally ready to reopen because “people have gotten vaccinated in extraordinary numbers, 6.3 million vaccinations in New York City to date,” the mayor said.

“We know the vaccination effort is going to grow and grow,” he added. “We gotta keep working hard at that, but what’s amazing is that every single day, we’re beating back COVID more and more.”

“Hospitalizations down, we’re just seeing a better situation every day,” the mayor said. “We’re ready to take that pathway to a full re-opening.”

The announcement comes after The Post has repeatedly pushed for the city’s reopening — including in an opinion piece from as early as May 2020 titled, “End New York City’s lockdown now!” that called for elected officials “to save the world’s greatest city from a slow death by economic strangulation.”

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