Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are expected to return to work when the city launches the first step of its reopening plan in the coming weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on 28 May.

Following months under lockdown — with measures that banned all non-essential businesses and closed schools —now between 200,000 and 400,000 employees are set to get back to the workplace across the five boroughs during Phase 1, which the mayor has previously stated he expects to be anytime in the first two weeks of June.