Omicron Fears Fail to Stop New Yorkers at Favorite Time of Year

  • Sandy Weill, Mark Mason attend Ailey’s opening night gala
  • ‘Being realistic about the paranoia,’ Nicolas Rohatyn says
The line for vaccination checks before entering the Ailey gala.Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
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New Yorkers had a message for omicron on Wednesday night: We got this. We’re not letting a new variant stop us.

It came from the throngs who gathered to see the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, and from the ticket-holders for opening night of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s season at City Center, its first since 2019.