Sundance: Window Shopping at Main Street’s Newest Shop
The Sundance store, 97 Main Street, revealed itself for window shopping as the large privacy walls were taken down. The community has long awaited the opening of the store, which will take place later this month. Sundance was founded by Robert Redford in 1969, transforming from a catalog to boutique with women’s and men’s clothing in addition to artisan gifts and speciality items. The Westport location will be the 20th store for the company, with locations sprawled across the country.
MTA: Metro-North Ridership at Record High for Pandemic
Press Release
Subway, Bus, LIRR, Metro-North Ridership Reaches New Pandemic Record
Straphangers Returning to System Ahead of 24/7 Subway Reopening on May 17
Subway Tops 2.2 Million Rides in One Day; Buses Top 1.2 Million
LIRR Tops 100,000 Riders; Metro-North Tops 83,000
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) today announced that the New York City Subway, Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad have reached pandemic ridership records, with 2,239,500 trips on the New York City Subway (including 3,823 on the Staten Island Railway), 101,600 LIRR, and 83,100 Metro-North trips recorded on Friday, May 7. New York City Buses reached a pandemic high one day earlier, on Thursday, May 6, of 1,245,629. These are the highest single-day ridership totals since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, and for buses, since front-door boarding resumed on Aug. 31.
The LIRR total is the first time the LIRR has reached more than 100,000 trips in one day. Subway ridership surpassed the 2 million mark on April 9.
“Growing ridership across the MTA is good news for New York,” said MTA Chairman Patrick Foye. “It is an indicator that the region’s recovery from the pandemic is gaining strength.”
"People are coming back which is great news for New York City Transit,” said Sarah Feinberg, NYC Transit Interim President, “but we need to continue to do all we can to get back to our pre-pandemic ridership levels.”
“Throughout the pandemic, buses continued to have the strongest relative ridership numbers,” said Craig Cipriano, President of the MTA Bus Company. “Our transit heroes work hard every day to provide the best service possible, and I’m glad to see that more and more New Yorkers are returning to the bus.”
“As the weather improves and sporting events and shows return to New York, we are excited to see our ridership grow,” said Phil Eng, President of the Long Island Rail Road. “And with the recent additions to our LIRR TrainTime app, including real-time seating and accessibility information, we are providing riders with as much information about their ride as possible.”
“Metro-North is seeing increasing ridership in concert with the reopening of the Hudson Valley,” said Catherine Rinaldi, President of Metro-North Railroad. “We’re predicting further ridership growth in the weeks ahead thanks in part to Hudson Valley Restaurant Week and the start of warm weather renewing interest in some of the best hiking in the region.”
The MTA has undertaken unprecedented cleaning and disinfecting protocols in the year since the pandemic began to ensure the system as safe as possible for its customers. The Authority has also rolled out robust public education campaigns and issued millions of masks to its customers. Mask usage in the system remains high, with more than 98% of customers wearing a mask when riding mass transit. The MTA also enhanced its Live Subway Map to allow riders to find vaccination sites throughout the city.
Prior to the pandemic, average weekday ridership totals routinely exceeded 5.5 million in the subway system. That figure fell by more than 90% to a low of roughly 300,000 daily trips last April as the number of COVID-19 cases peaked in the New York City area. The low point of bus ridership was 278,067 on Sunday, April 12, 2020. Average weekday ridership in April 2020 was 463,763. MTA employees continued to provide service for the frontline healthcare professionals and other essential workers who needed to get to work during some of the most troubling days in New York City history.
Remarkable Movies this Week: High Noon and Bad Moms
This Week at the Drive In:
Tuesday, May 11th:
High Noon | 7:45 PM | Half Price Night
Wednesday, May 12th:
Bad Moms | 8:00 PM
Thursday, May 13th:
Kings Highway Elementary School Movie Night | 7:45 PM |
The King’s Highway 5th Grade class is selecting movie choices now and will have a vote among students to choose a Remarkable film soon – stay tuned!
Coming Up:
Wednesday, May 19th:
Zootopia | 7:45 PM | Fundraiser for the Kings Highway School PTA
About The Remarkable Theater
Starting in Summer of 2020, the Remarkable Drive-in Theater began as a safe way to get families back to the movies in Westport. The Remarkable Theater is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization run by volunteers, whose mission is to “build a first class art house movie theater in downtown Westport, CT that provides purposeful employment to individuals with disabilities.”
The theater is nestled along the Saugatuck River at 50 Imperial Avenue, Westport, Connecticut.
Weekend Adds One COVID-19 Case; No Deaths; State Positivity Rate 1.41%
The Westport-Weston Health District reports that Westport has added 1 positive or probable COVID-19 cases, and has added 0 deaths. This includes cases from this past Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Westport total positive or probable cases: 1,789 cases.
Westport total COVID-19 Deaths: 31 deaths.
State Daily Test Positivity: 1.41%