No question selling widgets is the prime purpose of NYC
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/nyregion/coronavirus-business-nyc-reopen.html
No question selling widgets is the prime purpose of NYC, so getting widget designers, makers and marketers on duty is essential, so what if the widget workers bear the risk of widget business getting underway again.
Provide ad hoc Covid barriers to satisfy frightened fretters, social distance, temp take, contact test, a dollop of wage increase, a lecture on caretaking, weed the bellyachers, cocktail the union chiefs, flatter the media, uptick donations to needy, backroom with PR advisors, run campaign funders.
Done. Stick a fork in it. Marshal Dillon is back in Dodge. Take a victory din-din at Four Seasons. No Halloween masks of dismay and terror.
Oh, by the way, further reduction of property and business taxes, increase in subsidies, layoffs of non-essentials, there's a letter on the side table for John Henrys, follow the maitre de.