The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New York (Jacob K. Javits Convention Center), NY · New York
- Level
- Organizer
- Issued
- 2020-05-22 May 22, 2020
- In force
- May 22, 2020 (the notice's date)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Hotels, Travel and Tourism SEC-06
Operative words
"The Javits Center, which houses the auto show, is still being used as a field hospital for patients with COVID-19... the convention remains in 'standby mode' in case of future emergency." (The Verge, May 22, 2020, Ex. SEC-06-GM-015; the Javits board minutes record no events since Mar. 10, 2020 and the State's contracts for the Center's use as an emergency warehouse and temporary medical station, Ex. AGY-LOCAL-DISTRICTS-AUTHORITIES-055)
The organizer's notice
The Verge, 'New York Auto Show is now fully canceled; the Javits Center is still being used as a field hospital' (May 22, 2020)
Notes
2020: Postponed on Mar. 10, 2020 to late August; cancelled May 22, 2020. 2021: Cancelled Aug. 4, 2021, sixteen days before opening, citing the Delta variant "and the increased measures announced recently by State and local officials to stop its spread" (organizer statement as quoted by Autoblog, Ex. SEC-06-GM-016); New York City's Key to NYC order (issued Aug. 16, effective Aug. 17, 2021) covered the show's dates. Usual dates: April 10-19, 2020 (postponed to Aug. 28-Sept. 6, 2020); Aug. 20-29, 2021. Scale: 'draws over 1 million attendants' in a normal year (The Verge, Ex. SEC-06-GM-015; organizer fact sheet figure). Venue orders 2020: NY-002, NY-003, NY-004, NY-005, MET-NYC-006, AGY-LOCAL-DISTRICTS-AUTHORITIES-055. Venue orders 2021: MET-NYC-014, MET-NYC-015, NY-133, MET-NYC-017, MET-NYC-018, AGY-LOCAL-DISTRICTS-AUTHORITIES-056.