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New York PSA
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The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
A glossy pandemic-era public service announcement salutes New Yorkers for staying strong, with cutaways to nurses, delivery workers and neighbors. Midway the voices start praising one particular park character, a wigged, dancing older woman who seems to live outdoors, perform for crowds and tumble across the lawn with her small dog. The tribute swells into proud civic cheerleading before ending on a chalk "I love NY" drawing.
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She lives in a 40-floor walk-up, so once she's out, she's out.
She's not not a professor at Columbia.
Until Broadway reopens she's performing her one-woman version of The Lion King in the park every day.
Script
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- 00:05
PSA Host
Thank you,
- 00:06
New Yorker
New York, New York, New York.
- 00:10
New Yorker
Things got pretty tough here this summer, but through it all we stayed strong.
- 00:15
New Yorker
We stayed together and we never lost who we are.
- 00:21
New Yorker
Because we are New York, New York, New York.
- 00:24
New Yorker
And no matter how hard things get, we always get through it, and we do it our way.
- 00:31
New Yorker
Each and every one of us played a part, from the nurses who kept the safe to the essential workers who kept food on our tables to all the neighbors who just pitched in.
- 00:43
New Yorker
Today some things are different, but most things are exactly the same.
- 00:49
New Yorker
Beautiful.
- 00:52
New Yorker
Beautiful. Unbreakable. One-of-a-kind.
- 00:56
New Yorker
So hey, if you're not from... Come here, come see for yourself.
- 01:00
New Yorker
The museums, the landmarks, and this lady.
- 01:05
New Yorker
Sort of a dancing older woman. Not homeless, just, you know, quirky. She has an apartment, she's just usually outside. Like a rent-controlled situation.
- 01:15
New Yorker
She lives in a 40-floor walk-up, so once she's out, she's out. She's lived in a studio since she was 16, which was 30 or 100 years ago.
- 01:26
New Yorker
She's not not a professor at Columbia, and until Broadway reopens, she's performing her one-woman version of The Lion King in the park every day.
- 01:34
New Yorker
New York is not a ghost town. It's his town, it's her town, and it's definitely her town. Thank you.
- 01:45
New Yorker
So today we want to say thank you. Thank you.
- 01:51
New Yorker
Because New York will always be New York, and we're so proud to say the people just crazy enough to call this place home will always be here.
- 02:02
New Yorker
I love New York!
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