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Page Six ® THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2020 / Mostly sunny, 68° / Weather: P. 18 LATE CITY FINAL nypost.com •••• $2.00 Christopher Sadowski ONE MAN’S PLEA: The Big Apple is dying. Its streets are empty. ‘ Tens of thousands have been plunged into poverty. Our leaders have no plans, no answers. New Yorkers have already learned to socially ‘ distance. Businesses can adjust. The elderly and infirm can continue to be isolated. ITNEEDSTOEND. NOW. Columnist David Marcus on the devastating lockdown: PAGE 21 2 News Columns Michael Goodwin ...4-5 Miranda Devine ......15 Lee Smith .............16 Weird But True .......16 nypost.com Gossip Dem rival slaps AOC Page Six ...........12-13 Cindy Adams .........14 Weather p. 18 AOC says her family Post Opinion p. 19-21 lives [in NYC]. Her Maureen Callahan ...19 Betsy McCaughey ....21 mother moved to Business p. 23-25 Florida because the Features & Lifestyle Su Doku ...............22 taxes are too high. Crossword 22 ............ — Michelle Caruso-Cabrera (left) Body & Soul .......27-29 Horoscope ............30 Home p. 31-33 You can come after New York Post, Thursday, May 21, 2020 Classifieds p. 34 Sports p. 35-45 me all you want. Mark Cannizzaro ..36-37 Leave my mom out Photos: BronxNet via YouTube Brian Costello ........37 Mike Vaccaro .........42 of it. My mom is Steve Serby .......44-45 Joel Sherman ......44-45 a widow. Television p. 46-47 — Rep. Alexandria Post contact numbers Ocasio-Cortez (right) Editorial Main Office ........ (212) 930-8000 News Tips ......... (212) 930-8500 Sports Desk ........ (212) 930-8700 Advertising By Carl Campanile a headquarters in Queens. She also Classified .......... (212) 930-8100 called the far-left incumbent a divi- Circulation and Home Delivery Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s sive figure in the Democratic Party. Customer Service .... (800) 552-7678 video debate with her chief Demo- “We have to have an attitudinal Mail subscription & back issues: Bitter online All orders, changes of address and cratic-primary opponent, Michelle shift toward jobs. We can’t tell job inquiries, contact New York Post, P.O. Box Caruso-Cabrera, got downright creators, ‘Go away, we don’t want 1407, Bellmawr, NJ, 08099 or phone 1-888- 208-4157. Foreign and domestic mail nasty this week, with some of the your 25,000 jobs [referring to the subscription rates available upon request aborted Amazon project].’ I’m to the Publishers Information Center, Inc. barbs stunningly personal. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Caruso-Cabrera accused AOC of never going to do that,” Caruso-Ca- New York Post, 1211 Ave. of the Americas, primary debate NY, NY 10036-8790. staying in her “luxury” DC apart- brera said. Vol. 219 No. 188 Copyright 2020, NYP ment complex with a “Whole Foods tioning that she intervened in a dis- replayed on its YouTube channel. She pointed out that AOC was the Holdings Inc. (USPS-383200) Published daily by NYP Holdings Inc., in the lobby” during the peak of the pute with Immigration and Customs Caruso-Cabrera went on to blast only Democrat in the House last 1211 Ave. of the Americas, coronavirus pandemic that has rav- Enforcement agents on behalf of im- the first-term Democratic socialist month to vote against COVID- New York, NY aged constituents in AOC’s Bronx- migrant kids at La Guardia Airport. for voting against a House bill last recovery legislation — the Payroll 10036-8790. Queens district while Congress was But Caruso-Cabrera responded, year to repeal a portion of President Protection Plan — that included Periodicals postage paid at out of session. “AOC says her family lives here. Her Trump’s tax reform that limited money for small businesses, health New York, NY, and additional offices. The Post uses The congresswoman hit back that mother moved to Florida because state and local tax deductions that care and testing. recycled paper. Caruso-Cabrera, a former CNBC the taxes are too high.” largely benefit higher-income New AOC defended her vote, saying Lottery anchor, previously resided in a pri- That set off Ocasio-Cortez, who Yorkers. The bill was not taken up the bill was skewed toward Wall NEW YORK cey apartment in a Manhattan told Caruso-Cabrera it was a cheap in the GOP-run Senate. Street and the rich and “not struc- Midday Nos. Wed.: 108 Trump building. shot to bring up her mother. “AOC voted to raise taxes on New tured in a way” to help small busi- Midday Win-4 Wed.: 4592 AOC said she is still active in her “You can come after me all you Yorkers,” Caruso-Cabrera charged. nesses and excluded immigrants. Evening Nos. Wed.: 558 congressional district and her fam- want. Leave my mom out of it. My During much of the debate, Caru- She said constituents who called Evening Win-4 Wed.: 7869 ily has roots there. mom is a widow,” AOC said. so-Cabrera was on the attack — re- her office were overwhelmingly op- Pick-10 Wed.: 7, 8, 11, 12, “This is where my uncle is. There The online 14th Congressional peatedly charging that “AOC is posed to it. 14, 20, 21, 24, 27, 29, 30, 35, is where my brother is. This is where District debate Monday night was MIA” while criticizing Ocasio-Cor- She also said she was willing to 39, 44, 45, 46, 58, 60, 69, 70 my family is,” AOC said after men- sponsored by BronxNet and can be tez’s opposition to Amazon locating stand alone when necessary. Cash-4-Life Wed.: 11, 29, 40, 53, 57; Cash Ball: 1 Powerball Wed.: 18, 34, 40, 42, 50; Powerball #: 9; Power Play: x2 Don $$ threat to ‘vote by mail’ states Lotto Wed.: 13, 18, 23, 46, 47, 54; Bonus #: 8 President Trump threat- Election. This was done ille- issued an updated posting nario for the State and the crats pursue other alterna- Take-5 Wed.: 5, 11, 16, ened to “hold up funding” gally and without authoriza- clarifying that Michigan U.S. They can’t! If they do, ‘I tives because of health risks 21, 31 for Michigan and Nevada if tion by a rogue Secretary of was sending “absentee-bal- think’ I can hold up funds to during the coronavirus pan- NEW JERsEY the states follow through State,” the president wrote lot applications.” the State. Sorry, but you demic. Pick-3 Wed.: 800; Fireball: 7 with initiatives for voters to on Twitter Wednesday Trump also lashed out at must not cheat in elections,” His post comes a day after Pick-4 Wed.: 0353; Fireball: 7 cast mail-in or absentee bal- morning. “I will ask to hold Nevada for its plan to allow the president wrote. Michigan Secretary of State Cash-5 Xtra Wed.: 6, 18, lots in upcoming elections. up funding to Michigan if mail-in voting. Trump has previously Jocelyn Benson said the ab- 21, 25, 34; Xtra: 3 “Breaking: Michigan they want to go down this “State of Nevada ‘thinks’ warned that allowing peo- sentee-ballot applications CONNECtiCut sends absentee ballots to 7.7 Voter Fraud path!” that they can send out illegal ple to vote in ways other will be sent to all of the Play-3 Wed.: 871 million people ahead of Pri- He deleted the original vote by mail ballots, creat- than in person could lead to state’s 7.7 million registered Play-4 Wed.: 2204 maries and the General tweet and later Wednesday ing a great Voter Fraud sce- rampant fraud — as Demo- voters. Mark Moore, Wires Cash-5 Wed.: 9, 16, 22, 30, 33 3 New York Post, Thursday, May 21, 2020 nypost.com How do you shoot high fashion in a pandemic? For its June issue, Vanity Fair used a drone to capture Catherine O’Hara poolside — because you Art Streiber can never be too safe with social distancing. This tongue-in-cheek glam shot would suit her haughty Moira from the just-wrapped “Schitt’s Creek.” ‘Safe’ at home: poll Anxiety over crowded public spaces as some areas KidS’By Selim AlgAr craSS viewact authority. “They interact with reopen greatly outweighs Education Reporter us now the same way they do their Americans’ desire to leave friends,” said a Harlem middle- home with COVID-19 lurk- Mischievous city schoolkids are Turning vid lessons school teacher. ing, a new survey has found: manipulating and posting clips of The Bed-Stuy staffer said teachers 70 percent say they are their teachers’ remote-learning les- are routinely monitored online by more likely to see a first- sons on social media, leaving some their students. run film as a digital rental at educators wary of video classes, sev- into dirty Web posts “They see us on Twitter, on Insta- home than in a movie thea- eral sources told The Post. gram,” she said. “The student/teacher ter when it’s allowed. “There are a lot of us who aren’t ever since schools closed due to the avoid any involuntary appearances relationship has totally changed, es- 52 percent will attend comfortable with it,” a Bronx middle- coronavirus crisis. online, sources said. pecially in the last five years or so.” fewer public events (up school teacher said. “You never know Some parents have complained Others said that they are uneasy ex- A Bronx staffer said her students from 44 percent in March). where your face is going to end up about a lack of meaningful communi- posing their personal living spaces to routinely scroll through dating apps 51 percent say it will take right now.” cation with teachers, while others students and that already blurred so- like Tinder to see if they can spot a few months before they An eighth-grade instructor at the have lauded staffers for preserving cial-demarcation lines are being their instructors and their profiles.