(Package Description) Who, What, Where, When and Why: New York City
Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a media availability and tours the USTA
Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, NY, where a
350-bed temporary hospital will be built in response to the
Coronavirus on March 31, 2020

Script + Shotlist:

W/S Mayor Bill de Blasio tours site of Hospital

W/S Cuts of Reporters and Camera Crews

W/S Mayor Bill de Blasio tours

W/S Cuts of Hospital site

W/S Cuts of Reporters

SOT, Mayor Bill de Blasio: "So many good people are helping us,
preparing every day for what lies ahead, getting ready. The hospital
facilities we need to protect lives of New Yorkers. Yesterday, it was
the comfort basically floating right up to New York City with another
full hospital. An amazing feat. Today it is this facility here in
Queens that right now looks like a bunch of tennis courts. Very soon
this is going to be three hundred and fifty hospital beds to protect
the lives of New Yorkers.

And there are two ways of looking at this. If you want to say the
glass is half empty, you would say these tennis courts symbolize what
we're all going through right now. We'd all like to go back to the
times when things are normal and people are out here playing tennis.
We all feel that. I feel that. And we miss it. And it's sad. But we
also know that this crisis will not go on forever. It will be very
intense.

But thank God it will be brief. When I look out here, I see the glass
as half full, which is the fact that everyone is rising to the
challenge.